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"To continue reading this article you must be a Bloomberg Professional Service Subscriber"

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Ugh - Bloomberg buys Businessweek and then throws all of the content behind a paywall.

Here's a better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.busine...

You could always have bought the content, and given it away for free. People need to eat and pay the rent yo.

I am fully supportive of anyone who wants to Kickstart content corpus purchases and then give that to the Internet Archive for WayBack inclusion.

People complain about ads on a website and how they have to use an ad-blocker and then the complain when they put stuff behind a paywall. Can't have it both ways, people deserve to be paid for good journalism.

Popup ad blocking is not the problem. There's no need for popup ads at all - its a scummy practice.

I didnt mention pop up ads, just ads.

Do ad blockers block non-popup ads?

Yes

To be honest, those who use ad blockers most likely are not the target audience for an ad payer.

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