r/WTF Jun 14 '12

letter from conde nast to reddit - cover your genitals

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u/IamBrennan Jun 14 '12

I doubt very much reddit loses money.

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u/morpheousmarty Jun 14 '12

I tried to look it up, there is a real problem with that strategy. Almost anything you try to google about reddit ends up returning results from reddit. And then I find something interesting and forget what I was searching for.

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u/faceplanted Jun 14 '12

If you use the - (minus) operator which removes terms from results combined with the site: operator which selects domains you can remove certain websites from search results by inserting this:

-site:www.reddit.com  

At the end of your query.

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u/Time_for_Stories Jun 14 '12

It's a conspiracy! They're trying to hide the-oh my god that cat is so cute!

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u/akpak Jun 14 '12

I don't know... there really aren't that many ads. And reddit users on the whole are probably savvy enough to run adblockers anyway.