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July 22, 2006
Screw You NYT
I'd like to make a formal complaint against the New York Times online. I just tried to read this article but was stopped. Not by some physical force or by a slow connection. Rather, I was stopped by the incredibly obnoxious Ralph Lauren ad that covered the ENTIRE article. The ad had no "click here to get me the f*ck off this article" link and if you click anywhere NEAR the damn thing, it forwards you to the Ralph Lauren paint website. Now that's got to be far more interesting than any article I was going to read.
So I say, thanks NY Times. Thanks for making it THAT much easier for me to just get my information from google news and be done with you once and for all. Keep on making these anachronistic decisions that are escalating your slide into extinction. Block your best content behind a subscription fee so noone reads it. Put obnoxious ads all over your free content so that it's too annoying to deal with. Keep on, keepin' on man. It's clearly working.