When did cbc.ca start having ads?

[tuvor]

Maybe they've done it for a long time and I'm just not observant, but I don't recall seeing ads on www.cbc.ca prior to today.

[MrPrax]

1. Ads?

I didn't notice any--but then again in Windows I use Proxomitron with the AdBlock extension for Firefox, so I see very few ads.

I see prominent coverage of the Pope show, which leads one to ask the question as to whether the CBC should be funding and producing propaganda for the Catholic faithful--not really part of their mandate.

[tuvor]

2. Trying out AdBlock...

Thanks!

[Hand]

3. Ooooh yeah....

Forgot about that. Lessee... go to CBC, right-click on dopey ad, tell Adblock to block... reload page.

Damn! Now THAT's a nice utility! :toast:

[iverglas]

4. I forgot to watch that

... oddly enough. I'd wanted to, so that I could write an *informed* blast to the CBC brass. From the description, however, I imagine I wouldn't be able to sit through it without puking.

"Karol Wojtyla is an intimate story of the first man from a country behind the Iron Curtain to be elected pope and the role he played sending Poland back to the dark ages, where women are once again reduced to the status of objects. Just what you'd expect from someone who was such good buddies with the odious what's-er-name nun who travelled the world consorting with dictators and spewing the Vatican's hatred of women." Oh wait, that's not what it said, is it?

What business my tax dollars have foisting shit like that bit long commercial for stupidity and evil on me, I dunno.