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Why not just cram the extra ad on the second page. I can see the mercenary logic of putting the ads before the download link but why buty it even further under a vertical line of comments complete with space hogging avatars?

Oh, it's the ads that are a problem?
I don't even see them, not a single one. Adblock Plus, best thing that ever happened to Firefox and the internet in general. Between that and FlashBlock, that is.