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echoangle 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Steam Machine launches today

Fun fact about the kindle ad thing: I don’t know if they still do this but when I got mine, you could just write to the support and let them know you found the ads inappropriate (extra points for mentioning a child in the household) and they would just remove the ads for free.

Barbing 22 days ago [–]

Some people then had to re-enable ads manually to use AdBreak, the Kindle jailbreak that abused ad delivery :)

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