Monday, February 11, 2002End of a free era for Web surfing site. Netsurfer Digest, a site that's been pointing Web browsers to notable sites since before the Internet was big business, puts an annual fee on its formerly free newsletters.
"Online ad technology had become so annoying that we no longer wished to be associated with this industry," the company said on its site. "Having seen the direction in which all these new ad-delivery technologies are heading, it is painfully obvious that the ultimate destination is that special circle of hell which has heretofore been reserved exclusively for dinnertime telemarketers."[CNET News.com]
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