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Oh no, I didn't take it as being stupid at all. I just wasn't sure whether he meant a byproduct (historically) of us C&P'ing full articles with HTML enabled was that we ended up with someone else's [censored] (ads, cookies, etc.) on our own pages -- or if he meant that having to go elsewhere means having to deal with those.
Either way, both points have some meat to them. I guess my position is that summaries are a way to get the core information without having to read the whole article; and if one does want to read the whole thing, they can brave the wilds off of BP (I suggest "open link in new window").
There may well be a better way to handle all of this in the future, but for the time being, I think the 'new' method provides all the value of the old, without being seen as a pirate operation (yar), by those we might develop symbiotic relationships with.
Besides, even if the message was BP is stupid (and I don't think that's the case), that's cool too, because like my user title says, we're within reproach.
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