Quote Originally Posted by davedove
At least they aren't popping up in windows or with graphics moving across the page; those are the ones that annoy me.
Or playing music or other sounds. There's a banner ad floating around for "American Haunting" or some such that literally screams any time you mouse over it.

That's a bit much, I think.

I do professional web hosting administration for a living - I don't begrudge any site's operators the opportunity to pay the bills via banner ads. If they were totally unable to recoup any expenditures, the good sites (the ones that end up with high traffic!) would dry up and blow away rather fast.