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I can’t even read news at any other site due to the adds, popups, integrates URLs, videos that play on their own and general junk built in to those sites.

This place is great due the simple user friendly and free layout.

I'm in absolute agreement about the great look and feel about FR. I work as a software developer (C++, Perl, PHP and Java mostly) but am a bit of a luddite away from the office since I work with technology all day long. In fact, largely due to inertia on my part, it was only January that I finally dropped my dialup (same provider since 1991) connection.

Using a text-based browser as I did, Free Republic was one of a handful of sites that worked well in that admittedly primitive environment. The absence of JavaScript, Flash and other adornments is part of FR's appeal since content trumps presentation. All IMHO and YMMV.