Re:Abusive advertising kills advertising.. (Score 1)

So block popups, popunders and use Flashblock. But allow those websites who try to be responsible display ads by allowing text ads like AdSense to be displayed. The more profitable non-intrusive forms of advertising becomes in comparison to obnoxious forms of advertising, the more attractive non-intrusive advertising becomes to websites. Instead of using Adblock and other ad blocking programs as a giant hammer to crush all ads, use them as tools to help encourage non-obnoxious ads. Tens of thousands of high quality independent (e.g. not mega-media controlled) sites are like mine and totally dependent upon ad revenues. Without ad revenues they would not be able to continue their existence and the Internet would be a poorer place totally dominated by big media companies who could get away with charging subscription fees to access their content. Someone has to bare the cost of developing high quality content, web servers and bandwidth, either users in general can allow a third party pay for it via advertising or users will have to bare this cost directly themselves. Would Slashdot be able to continue to exist without ad revenues? I think not. Again use ad blocking programs as tools to "reward" sites that use non-obnoxious ads while blocking the most disagreeable forms of advertising. Advertising funds the great richness of websites we see on the Internet today, but we need to work together (web publishers like me and consumers of said websites) to encourage websites and advertisers to be more responsible in regards to the types of ads they deploy.