Xbox Live Gold members frequently gripe about the fact that they are paying for a service that still shoves advertising in their face. Me, not so much. In fact, I like that most of the ads alert me to new content or even events that I may have not noticed otherwise.
What's really annoying about some of these ads is that they are totally useless as a way to get me to actually do something. There are several sizes of ads in the dashboard. The narrow sliver ads and the very large one seen within the Marketplace blades can be highlighted and then followed to whatever content they are promoting.
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