Banner ads (Score 1)

Well I've just had to create myself a login so I can reply to this. If you can't understand why people get annoyed about banner ads, consider those of us (such as Europeans like myself) who have to pay for internet access and can equate time spent loading banner ads to money going down the drain. You may well argue that we all receive junk mail through our letterboxes and we all walk past advertising hoardings on our way to work ([ "$HAVE_CAR" = "yes" ] && s/walk/drive/) but we don't pay for the privilege. Any adserver ip address that isn't shared with the webserver goes straight into ipfw add reject tcp from any to $IP 80 if I'm at home or ipchains -A output -s 0/0 -d $IP 80 -p tcp -j REJECT at the office. Surely the worst offender is the otherwise excellent freshmeat, the only site I visit daily. If you're going to waste our bandwidth advertising something, at least advertise something that we haven't all got. And isn't the point of advertising to make money? Who makes money out of advertising Apache? It's free for God's sake.