I think Patchou did a right thing by removing the ad removal option for the reasons he listed above, however one thing I don't understand is that why Microsoft thinks that if someone who is willing to remove ad banners from MSN Messneger would click on those ads after this option from Plus is removed?
I, for example, hate all those ads and never click on them, it takes 1 minute of my time everyday to empty my junk folder. (I'm not trying to stereotype
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that MS is giving out email adresses to some spammers and at the same time they seem to fight spam back.