The San Francisco Chronicle has run an article entitled “Free wireless a high-wire act: MetroFi needs to draw enough ads to make service add profits.”

I’m profoundly skeptical of anything that regards the real-estate between my head as “free,” as advertisers do, and so MetroFi’s so-called “free” wireless service immediately raised my suspicions, given that it subjects users to a barrage of ads in a one inch strip atop browsers. After a little bit of digging, I turned up an excellent post on dslreports‘ site, “MetroFi is a badly broken Internet experience.”

The reviewer reports:

MetroFi executives describe their service as the same as normal broadband “as long as users can accommodate a one inch ad bar atop each WEB page.” That doesn’t tell the story at all.

The big problem is that MetroFi advertising scheme all but completely “breaks” your browser’s ability to bookmark pages, and it “breaks” other aspects of the browser as well.

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