Re:cry me a river (Score 1)

An ad or two would be perfectly acceptable by many people out there, as it was a few years ago. But now we don't get an ad or two. We get three, four, ten ads on EACH AND EVERY PAGE. To top it all off, we have misleading or downright false ads. Viruses weren't enough for these folks. Now we have to concern ourselves with Adware, Malware and Spyware. Where does it end? But it doesn't end with free content either. Think what happens when you sit down to watch that new DVD and Disney or Sony or 20th Century Fox decides you need twenty minutes of advertising (it's gone beyond previews these days). I paid for that movie, not the Doritos ad before it. You buy a CD or a video game and they stuff them chock full of ads. Even a good portion of fee-based sites still have pop-up advertising. My quantity of physical and electronic junk mail has dipped quite sharply (to all but none) in the past few months and my online ads have disappeared completely thanks to Firefox and programs like it. I still buy quite a bit of merchandise online, but now it is from proven, ad-free retailers. The war will continue, just like the battle against harrassing telemarketer phone calls will continue. Do I feel bad that I may be costing some salesperson his job? No. Learn a skill. Get educated. Do something else. I did. (And, yes, I worked in sales for many years - coldcalling included)