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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate 7 points 1 year ago

The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads.