[stevenicr]

Interesting indeed - although I see it opposite.

Personally I find gambling sites (and alcohol ads amongst other things) abhorrent, however when I see sponsors listed like these it makes me feel that the portal has less censorship than [insert news / tech giant / etc here]

Which gives me hope / faith that a thing could be bigger / better than the narrow [other] -

It's like if there are only a dozen or so 4 color printing presses in the world - I'd want to support the one that prints Hustler magazines.. like Larry Flynt said something like 'if they censor me, whats to stop them from censoring you or anyone else'

I realize I am a bit of on outlier (I assume) than the 'mainstream adoption' group you may be referring to.

I also think 99% of the 'mainstream adopters' never look for nor care about a sponsors page.