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Say, let's shift the scenario a bit: 

Let's say that a neat must-have Animation plugin arrived for D|S. You happily use it for months, and while you wouldn't mind buying a paid-for version of it, the free version works okay as it is and the plugin seems overpriced to you anyway in spite of its usefulness. Suddenly, it changes its behavior. Now, unless you pay a few hundred bucks for it, the free version makes you put up with a few **advert popup prompts that you had to click through every time you did anything in D|S with that plugin installed (e.g. save, render, open a file, etc)...
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...would you be philosophically okay with that?  Sure, it's their right to do it and all, and maybe you'd buy the thing now, but that's not the question. The question is, would you be okay with that action? 

Hi  I sorry but
your comparison is not relevant for many reasons.
Primarily Because in the  Draconian scenario you describe:"(click through every time you did anything in D|S with that plugin installed (e.g. save, render, open a file, etc)"

The  "must have" plugin now adversely effects
o core functionality of the Entire program in a Global fashion

Two extra mouse clicks in a segregated section
of renderosity.com  ,that I chose to visit, does NOT affect the core functionality of the site at large( forums,Sitemail, filelocker, my personal vender control room etc etc.)

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