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How native advertisements could be the solution to the internet's bad-ad problem

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imageAds that appear in broadsheet newspapers continue to have more appeal than their annoying, online counterparts. 'Laptop,' via www.shutterstock.com

Website ads fidget, interrupt and mislead. They’re loud and ungainly. They fixate on things you may not care about and they sometimes spread viruses.

Like adolescent boys, their designers seem to be...

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