Quoting <200003271030.LAA25471 at little.cs.tcd.ie>
by Mike Knell <mike.knell at cs.tcd.ie>:
> Disable the banner ads, and you're depriving the sites of income.
> Sure, it's probable that _most_ people will leave them enabled, but
> if, say, 20% of people use a filtering proxy, that's 20% of the
> site's income.
As a customer, ads that get in my face annoy me. As a customer, I'm
going to make a choice to avoid them. As an advertiser, you can
respect my choice, and show me and ad that doesn't annoy me (google's
text ads, for instance, I don't mind), or lose my ad views.
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