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Old 04-25-2015, 08:02 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
Why beat up the author? Goodreads is a commercial site. You've known that for awhile now. If you don't like it, just leave. They are entitled to make money by ad placement. I mean really? How tough is it to just scroll by it?
NO. If an author chooses to try to make money with *intrusive* advertising, they deserve to be "beat up". If enough authors realize that this is a BAD THING, then the advertising in the feed will go away.

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