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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/business/media/the-onion-print-paper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU4.1xea.taxbYyRSbooa&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/business/media/the-onion-...</a><p>> <i>At the same time, The Onion is reducing its reliance on certain kinds of advertising. A month ago, it stopped running digital ads from the company Taboola, a purveyor of attention-grabbing links. Most of the ads in this month’s print edition — for Ashley Madison, WeWork and Chick-fil-A — are fake, but there are some genuine promotions for The Onion. One of the ads: “It’s That Sweater You Clicked On Once. We Found a Way to Follow You Into Print Media, Too.”</i><p>Too lazy to look for my old print copies of The Onion but did they have actual ads back then? They must have, right? The print copies were distributed for free at newsstands and bookstores