Ads on the Internet are Getting Out of Hand

Is it just me or are there becoming more and more advertisements on the internet. Pretty much any site you go to you either get ads all over the page or pop up ads. You have to navigate through them to get to the actual content. I understand a few ads on your site just to help earn some money to support the site, but some sites are just getting out of hand.

If you have more ads on your site than content, you have too much. If I need to close 3 windows and force close FireFox 2 times, you have too many ads.

Then there are the annoying ads like the ones that hoover over content so you can't see or click things. And the Youtube ads that go over the video. Listen, nobody clicks those, so stop putting them on there. It's not worth the occasional accidental click.

Videos on Youtube used to be free. Now it's no different than tv where you have to watch commercials.

I have some Google ads on this blog, but they do not overshadow the blog posts. Really it is barely even worth having the ads. I have over a hundred articles on here and I have earned like a few dollars total.

Everything always comes back to money. People want more money and they will compromise user experience on the internet to get it. Unfortunately I don't see the situation getting better, only worse as time goes on.

Update: You can now block most ads on the internet with free browser plugins like Ad Block Plus. They are easy to install and make internet browsing a lot better and less annoying.