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Old 03-16-2006, 12:32 AM   #14
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Name: komodo
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Athens, GA
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Your Ride: 1995 M3
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Originally Posted by doughboyea
Umm, I was refering to Bimmerwerkz, at least that's what it was called last year when i was last there. Too much advertising. Not only did it drastically slow down my computer's performance, it also was a big turn off. ie. linking words in your post to advertising sites automatically....

Dough
United Bimmer has always been founded on a few major points. That's one of them.

Read my post back from April of 2005:
http://www.unitedbimmer.com/forums/6894-post1.html

The important part of it:
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Some things we will NEVER do on United though is:
-Popup Ads (ohgodpleaseshootmenow)
-Contextual Advertising (those annoying green links that infest posts)
-Annoying Flash Ads that invade the website, scrolling/floating around the website
-Any kind of ad with sounds
-Any kind of ad that expands with a mouseover
The forum was founded with me saying that, and it'll never change.
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