ads vs humans

"The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has warned. Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like Adblock -- an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser -- which makes blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'."

Here's the coolest part:

Yes... in fact i thought about this:

Imagine you're reading a newspaper.

Suddenly a clown springs from the newspaper and begins yelling offers at you.

You suddenly flip the page to get rid of him. Then a monkey starts bothering you until you punch him. But when you do, an executive salesman comes out from the alley and tells you "Hello! You won a prize! Please sign!"

"Get away from me!" You run away, and sit in a bench. "Now, where was I?" you say, as you flip to the next page.

Then a gorgeus girl starts flirting with you, until you notice she begins to pick your pocket. You quickly flip the page.

"HELP!!" you yell. Then you hear a "psst psst" from the back of the newspaper. It's a firefox.

It comes out, and scares all those annoying people away. You feel it's friendly, so you let it rest on your shoulder.

Now you can read your newspaper in peace.

Yes, I hate popups and spyware and all these beasts. I'll dance on your graves!

p.s. I use Opera to block the popups and the Agnitum Outpost plugin for everything else.

p.p.s. source