It's so completely pathetic. I don't watch much 
TV, but when I do, I *tape* it so I can zap the 
ads instead of having to watch them. (You get 
EIGHT minutes of ads in only a half hour show - 
and in a two hour movie block, you'll see FORTY 
minutes. That's even up from when I was taping 
Inspector Gadget as a kid - there were only six 
and change minutes of ads to a half-hour show 
then.)

But where the net is concerned, you have a whole 
nother side to it. It takes *time* to download 
this crap that you don't want. When I'm reading a 
post here on Yann's Forum or the Anime Chaos 
site, I scroll the banner ads off the screen as 
soon as the page is loaded. If I ever had to 
waste my time downloading and watching an ad to 
be able to get into a website, I wouldn't bother 
either waiting or returning.

In a way, it's like the advertisements you get on 
fax machines - do you realize that ads we throw 
out are responsible for wasting 15-20 pieces of 
*our* paper PER DAY where I work?? Not to mention 
INK, which is very expensive. When are the 
advertisers going to come and repay us for that? 
When will they repay the *environment* as well?

Advertisers suck.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac