As before I am posting here when I unsubscribe from feeds. I do not bother mentioning ones that just stop updating etc, thats just the normal life cycle, some annoy me though and force me to unsubscribe.
As I mentioned before I understand why people put ads into RSS feeds, and I do not mind them in full text feeds. A very good example of good ads would be those found in the feeds from boingboing.
Now to todays offenders, the fine people from Security Focus have started putting ads into their feeds, their feeds contain like a 1 or 2 line summary of the article and does not even usually contain a very usable clickable link to the full story. Now though as if that isn't stupid enough they also include a text ad that by my rough estimate is about 5 times as big as the actual readable text in the feed. Get Real people, would you watch TV if the advertisements lasted for 45 minutes and the program for 15?
I hope you lot get a clue soon, but I don't think I'll be rushing to subscribe to any of your feeds again soon.
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