There are (at least) two advertising strategies that I've seen:
1. Small(ish) adds on the periphery of a web site. Some of these may be Flash, some of them may be annoying animated GIFs, but they never attempt to take over your screen, nor do they automatically try to open pop-ups.
2. Large, flashy ads, often with video and/or audio, many of which take over the screen or spawn pop-ups.
I can deal with sites that use #1. #2 is unacceptable.
When using Firefox, I have AdBlock (among other things) installed, but now that I'm using Chrome a bit more for daily browsing, I find myself avoiding sites that use method #2 for serving up ads.
1. Small(ish) adds on the periphery of a web site. Some of these may be Flash, some of them may be annoying animated GIFs, but they never attempt to take over your screen, nor do they automatically try to open pop-ups. 2. Large, flashy ads, often with video and/or audio, many of which take over the screen or spawn pop-ups.
I can deal with sites that use #1. #2 is unacceptable.
When using Firefox, I have AdBlock (among other things) installed, but now that I'm using Chrome a bit more for daily browsing, I find myself avoiding sites that use method #2 for serving up ads.