Any chance the advertising can be removed from the Rifter?

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Any chance the advertising can be removed from the Rifter?

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I can understand the rational for Rifter issues initially having 10 pages of updates/advertisements for palladium products when it was first published in the late 90's. Not many people had regular access to the internet. But today with just about everyone plugged into the internet it just seems to me that those 5-10 pages worth of advertisements/updates could best be used to feature another submission (or two).

Consumers subscribe/buy the Rifter because of the articles, and more articles might just increase both individual sales and subscriptions.
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Re: Any chance the advertising can be removed from the Rifte

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The amount of space devoted to ads was the reason why I initially let my subscription lapse way back when The Rifter was only still in the early 30's. It was years before I bought a Rifter again, and those purchases were intermittant, based on reviews and recommendations from others.

When the content of The Rifters that I received wasn't impressing me, having pages and pages of the same ads that I'd already been seen time and again really made me wonder, "Why did I pay for this again?"

I'm not saying to remove it entirely, but it certainly could be lessened or maybe even rotated in and out so it at least seems different from issue to issue.
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