[smacktoward]

When did they ever claim to you that subscribing meant you wouldn't see ads anymore?

You know that if you subscribe to the print version it has ads in it too, right?

[SomeOldThrow]

When they claimed it was necessary to support the service. It’s absolutely not. Newspaper ads are not targeted.

Anyway ads in any form still produce perverse incentives for a supposedly journalistic entity—I don’t know how anyone can read a newspaper that takes ad money and consider it unbiased.