The VGchartz ads are tedious and sometimes makes my antivirus go nuts. I'm too lazy to get an adblocker, but I would never feel sorry for blocking ads.

Ads which fire off an antivirus are simply unacceptable. ioi, don't these ad networks scan their ads for viruses?

AVG is by far and away the best Virus Checker I have ever used.

pb1285n obviously doesn't know how to work his computing machine properly !

Well, I don't live with my mom, we don't have a basement, and I never intend to play WoW, so I guess you're no better?

At any rate, if you're using an outdated version of a web browser, particularly something as archaic and security hole-ridden as IE6, then yes, it's time to update it, and as far as I'm concerned, any problems you experience are your own damn fault in the first place.

EDIT:  And with respect to VGChartz' main page, I'm sure that if you replaced both the console sales graphs and the other animation with news stories with something a little simpler and HTML/JS-based, it'd go a lot further to improve rendering times than anything ad-related would. =\

EDIT AGAIN:  Huh, according to YSlow, the page took ~2-3 seconds less to load with Flash disabled.  Guess not a huge difference, but it does help.

What this article doesn't mention is the issue of mutual respect beetween content provider and readers.

Respect on the readers part comes in form of not using ad blocking software.

Respect on the part of content provider is shown by using ads that are somehow related to the topic and ads that are not intrusive on browsing (no pop-ups, no redirects or sound ads).

Indeed, that's all I ask.  And in fact, there's also the concept of too many ads.  When I first came to this site, there was probably one or two ads on the main page, and that was it.  Over the course of a year, its grown to about 7-8 ads on the main page (depending on the type of ads), some redirect ads, and any number of ads on the forum page.  Sure, a site needs to grow, as this site has, but no forum or even major site like IGN or gamefaqs has THIS many ads.  I hate to make the analogy, but the only sites on the internet with this many ads that I can think of are porn sites and emulation sites.  Perhaps its time to tone it down a peg.

To be fair, I think the ads are much more game-related than they were before.

However I agree with you on the quantity of ads.

People go to the toilet or make tea whilst the ads are on or fast forward the ads if they have recorded the program on SKY+ or Video/DVD etc, I believe there is even some technology that cuts the ads out for you.

The internet's version of this is adblock.

And saying we have to 'accept' something looks to me like many governments around the world that enforce rules on their citizens because it's what the small majority making the desicions want and basically they are saying 'stuff what our people want and think', we think it's right. 

Unfortunately for you I'm guessing the majority of poeple will voice their opinions by leaving ad block on, and you might consider that stealing and if so, call the police, I'm sure they could do with good laugh.

I personally have had so many problems in the past with warnings about this site, 'does anyone remember when it was listed in google of having malicious script?' I currenly have no intention of blocking my guard as I do not want another av.exe fake antiivus installed thank you.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=52828

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=99395&page=1

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=61428

As for the restaurant scenario and me going back and stealing food, I think you'll find if a restaurant had caused that many proplems to that many people, it would have been closed down by the council by now.

The problem isn't an isolated incident it occurs regularly time and time again.

Why ads are devastating to the computer you love - malware.

I don't have all the ads blocked now. But I do have the horrific flash ones blocked. There it is my compromise ; ;