Reply to myself: I use AdBlock so I never see any ads at all. I shouldn’t have discussed the new format without taking ads into account, because it seemed innocent enough from my adless -> adless perspective.
I will never know what new commercialization the new format brings, so I apologize for speculating about the integrity of the owners of Boing Boing, which may or may not be true. If I implied that I admire a journalism team which markedly ups their product placement capacity, I apologize. Again, I have no idea what the new layout looks like with ads, how much those ads might look like real stories, or how much the dollar signs may or may not have affected them throughout the years. Because I use adblock, and I can’t see the ads.
Hey, by the way, why don’t you complainers just install adblock? It literally (as in the literal meaning of the word literally) takes less than 2 minutes. Then you’ll be as blissfully ignorant as me. And if the day comes where Boing Boing is shilling for products and masquerading such as regular stories in exchange for money, then you’ll know it’s time to quit.
