"Solution -- don't use advfn's market data. I can't imagine the market data is why almost any of us use this site in the first place. You can eliminate it all together for all I and the vast majority of premium-paying subscribers I would imagine."
I still maintain that the ONLY reason Advfn paid cold cash (or whatever level of temperature it was) for IHUB was the anticipation that a captive audience would be exposed to (and hopefully, drawn to) their PAID services.
I would presume, therefore, that there is no way on earth that they are going to back away from anything that creates a link between IHUB and Advfn.
That leaves only two options/ramifications for all of us - 1) hope that IHUB doesn't change and/or 2) possibly discover that we want to capitalize on their proprietary material - free or otherwise.