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Should I disable my AdBlocker on Ask Ubuntu?
I noticed that one of my next privileges on the main site is seeing decreased ads. As an AdBlock Plus user, I don't see any ads regardless so I didn't realise that there were any. I know that some ...
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Should comments offering offline support be flagged?
Are comments like this permitted on AskUbuntu:
There is a flag for questions and answers to mark them as spam if they are promoting a product or service without clearly stating the author's ...
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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New user promoting a single service - (subtle) spam?
This user was created today, and the user has written 3 answers, of which 2 has been removed as spam (visible to +10k users):
How to connect to remote desktop, Kali Linux from ubuntu?
Multi-user ...
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Ad crap is causing browser errors, is this acceptable?
This sort of ad stuff that tries to execute gifs and pull do all sorts of shady stuff is a big red flag for me and is making me feel uneasy using this platform. What can be done and/or how to reassure ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Does AskUbuntu have a say in what side adds are put up? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Some SE network ads are offtopic/inappropriate.
I recently saw a side add that was a bit surprising, albeit quite funny...
Maybe we could limit the ads to a limited scope of ...
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