I have to agree with Mich in saying Pop-unders are extremely irritating, with you actually having to switch screens just to close the ad. The other kind I particuarly hate are the ones which pretend to be helpful (i.e. Your computer may be at risk - Click here to install SpamDestroyerblah), not only are they misleading and trick ignorant and/or inexperienced computer users, but often the Cancel or "X" button on them pops up a new browser window directing them to their site anyway. In my opinion that's some really underhanded tactics. All ads apart from text ones are really rather annoying - which is probably part of the appeal and success of the Google Ads. Generally they're unobtrusive and at least have some remote relevance to what you're looking at. To be honest, I'm much more likely to click an ad if it isn't so desperate as to need to flash a huge window in my face or trick me into visiting their site.

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Ahhh, advertisements. The reason I'm at Trap17 as opposed to other hosting services. I absolutely hate ads, especially pop-ups, pop-unders, sidebars, and those which you cannot position in your own page. Which means pretty much everything you don't add voluntarially.
Advertisements are basically a sign of how commericalized civilization and the internet has become. And it sucks.
Ads are also really mean, because a lot of people who don't know a lot about the internet click them unknowingly, thinking they're legit... Wrong.

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Without advertisements there would be very few websites.

Why would Google exist if they didn't have some way of making money.

The web would be dominated by wikipedia instead. Not like that's a bad thing.

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Advertisements are probably the top thing that makes the internet suck. The problem is that keeping up a site without ads on it doesn't generate any or if any that much revenue. Because of that, high traffic sites slap them all over and expect people to click the advertisements in hope of making at least some money or covering the cost to keep it up. It's perfectly understandable, but too many ads is ridiculous.

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Like you I also hate ads. Small ad's like little text google ones are fine for me. But big animated flashing banners really get on my nerves. They all offer you something for free then link you to a site for cheap meds, lottery sites all of those scammy ones. Really it's false advertising. In my country New Zealand they recently started to put video advertisments on New Zealand pages. Like our news sites, ISP sites. They would pop up on the side of the page and then start playing a video advertisment (like the ones on tv) wasting your bandwith, it was disgusting.

I understand some people need to pay for their hosting, but they aren't going to get any visitors to their site if they have really crappy off putting advertisments on their site.

Thanks for making a topic that I can let off some steam in

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i hate ads but i like them at the same time when i bored i go find one of those ad games and i play they are quite for a good 2 min lol but i really hate pop ups they are the worst of them all when you are browsing it just pop ups with these blinking lights you are a winner gosh it gets on my nerves but that happen rarely now of these days for me.

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