I think these bug me more than anything on-line, though expanding ads might be tied with these for annoyance. Those are particularly aggravating when I'm trying to read a short news article and the expanding ad blocks the entire article!
I understand that advertising is needed to support sites and that if I don't pay for premium service (where offered) I will usually see it. I don't have a problem with this. Using Firefox I can block images from common ad servers so a certain number of ads never appear. Others I simply ignore. However, it is difficult to ignore an ad that starts playing sound (typically synced to a video). It is especially annoying though when you've already scrolled past it and must look through the page to turn it off.
Sounds should be off by default. I avoid sites that play music which you cannot easily turn off by default. I would rather tell a site that I want to listen to music rather than have to manually turn it off each time I visit. And of course these ads are worse because periodically they can refresh and a new one that you have to mute will come up.
Unfortunately there must be enough people that actually click on these ads that they stay around. I only wish this weren't so... :(
~Matt
PS Have I mentioned that I love Firefox 2.0's new features like built-in spell check? ;-)
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"A room without books is as a body without a soul." -Cicero
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Image how bad those are if they start while you are at work. :)
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