Quote - I use Firefox and AdBlock, and never see any banners.  :-)

And my follow-up question is this: as more people get frustrated by these off-topic banners and block them all, how else can merchants advertise their products? Merchants can't talk about their own products in the forums (or else their posts will be labeled "commercial" and moved to the Product Showcase Forum).
 
One of the few remaining benefits of having an exclusive product here is that the merchant gets to run a banner ad for the exclusive product. If people are blocking the banners, what good is this benefit?

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