Yay, other people caught on. This whole thing can be reduced to "They're taking away my potential to have free stuff later." I laugh hardily at those with permanent accounts that are 'striking.' It's like... good job, they know that they're not getting more money out of you and now you're saving them space/bandwidth on top of it.

Oh noes, ads on a website. blocking them is soooooooooo~ hard.