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That is an useless link baiting headline. Recommend changing it. An honest "TechCrunch begins showing interstitial adverts" would probably evoke a more interesting debate.

At first I assumed they had been hacked again and just closed the tab. I checked the source the next time around, but I wonder how many other ad-blocking readers only saw a "Skip This Ad" link and did the same.

It's not like I really needed another iTablet rumor fix today, anyway.

Interstitial ads are incredibly user-hostile; these ones actually have a bug right now and so fail to respect the original URL -- so you try to visit a particular article on TC and get bounced to the front page. Awful.

Either TC is having profitability problems or Arrington is getting greedy, and I really couldn't tell you which is more likely.

Tell HN what exactly?

Clear your cookies or check it out in another browser.

Wow, talk about moving in the wrong direction.

As if all of the flashing ads on the right weren't enough.

I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that I didn't notice.

yet an other reason to read TC from my RSS reader

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