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<title>End non-free advertisement: stamp out the ads!</title>
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<h1>End non-free advertisement: stamp out the ads!</h1>
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<p>
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One month, one campaign, one goal: getting rid of non-free
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software advertisements on public websites. In four weeks, FSFE received
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reports concerning <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html">2162 European institutions who
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advertise non-free PDF readers</a>. Apart from the 305 activists who
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participated to the search, 1500 individuals, 46 businesses and 38
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organisations signed our <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/petition.html">Petition
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For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites</a>.
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Now that the hunt is over, it's time to chase up those websites which encourage
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visitors to jeopardise their freedom. It's time to stamp out the ads!</p>
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<p>Highly motivated volunteers searched the internet for public websites that
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advertise non-free software and reported <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html">2162 institutions</a>. Some of
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them, like Massimo Barbieri and Lucas Bickel individually reported more than
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350! Alessandro Albini, Rainer Schmitz, and Pavel Kharitonov
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also made a remarkable contribution in reporting around 50 institutions
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each.</p>
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<p>But the FSFE won't stop with a list of institutions. In the coming weeks,
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FSFE will <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/letter.html">send
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letters to the institutions</a> to draw their attention to their unfair
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advertising. In the name of the signatories of the <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/petition.html">petition</a>, FSFE will ask the
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institutions to either remove any recommendation for non-free software from
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their website, or give a choice of several programs.</p>
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<p>Wherever you are, whatever time you have, you can contribute to the removal
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of non-free software adverts on public websites. The amazing work of the ads
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hunters and our <a
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href="/contribute/translators/translators.html">translators</a> has laid a
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firm foundation for the next phase. Now it is up to you to enable us to get
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things done. You can make a difference! Help us to <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/letter.html">translate the letter into missing
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languages</a> or <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">donate to the PDF readers
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campaign fund</a> to help cover the 1600 EUR for postage and the extra costs
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of administration to deliver the messages throughout Europe. Help us stamp out
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the ads!</p>
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