Why isn't anyone talking about Super Paper Mario?!

[A Black Falcon]

Bringing up a whole new window and pressing mute is effort I don't want to bother with . Remember, I detest being pitched to, more than most really. My "hangup" about ads prevents me from finding any jokes, even otherwise good ones, funny if they are in any way attempting to get me to spend money on something probably.

That's why tabbed browsing is better, darnit! :) Even Microsoft has finally figured that out, the newest version of IE finally has it...

Just about every gaming site on the internet that steams game videos plays a short commercial first. And they're only about 15 seconds long.

Agreed. It's annoying, certainly, but not something that will keep me from watching an interesting video.

Really though, it's the intrusive ones that bug me. A banner here and there never bothered me, until they started crawling around the screen and yelling at me about ring tones, and somehow managing to get around all manner of popup blocker sometimes, and then there's the full screen "in 30 seconds you'll get your page but maybe if we show this really long it'll sell you something". Are there any actual studies to show these things to be effective at all, aside from extremely limited statistics that, due to said limitations, can't even give enough data to tell if the ad in question was responsible for the sale, or if that, if it was the nature of the ad or really just the fact that someone was made aware of a product and really that person couldn't care less if a talking mule told him about it or if it was plain text explaining it?

I hate banner ads with sound so much... those things are incredibly annoying... :(

There's this particularly bad bee one I run into every so often that makes a constant buzzing noise that can't be turned off without reloading the page and getting a different ad...