Going to say this anyways (Score 2, Interesting)

This is obviously a flame, and I know I'm going to lose what meager karma points I have with this, but I'm going to say it anyways.

You all know very well that there are reasons why you have to put up with this.

All of these are technologies that you can turn off in your web browser, whatever the web browser may be.

C'mon, even if you don't want to turn on Javascript, you can even *shock horror* get a different browser that doesn't implement this stuff, or wasn't considered when they did the popunders! Gosh darn!

Frankly, as far as I'm concerened all of your having to put up with these ad issues is a direct result of your choices.

I do have sympathy for those who don't know better. My grandmother doesn't even know what Javascript is; I can't talk to her about deactivating things like that. And because of those people I still don't think all that highly of companies that pull this crap.

But, geez, people, we're all geeks here. You ought to know better. Right? Shouldn't you try dropping your bloat^H^H^H^H^Hmodern browser setup for once instead of bitching all the time and whining about how "this bothers me oh so much" and so on?

(to moderators: My apologies. It's just that in one particular circle on IRC I'm the local Web Expert and I get a *ton* of back-of-hand-nailed-to-forehead whining about this stuff, and so I'm kind of a loose cannon on the subject. :) )