However, I turn JavaScript and Flash on for every site that I frequently visit or that has been useful to me in any way. So I see all the ads. (One exception: I don't like pop-ups and I will do everything to stop them).

But this is what I see when Flash and Javascript is on: right now I'm looking at an ad that says that I'm the 1 millionth visitor. And I see that ad on a lot of blogs and other sites EVERY DAY! Clearly it's a lie. It's an obvious attempt to attract unwary visitors to enter their email addresses. This is why I have to drill friends and family not to click those links. Luckily they are smart enough.

Then there are those in your face Evony ads. I didn't play that game, but I very much doubt it has anything to do with attractive ladies and a lot with a basic online strategy game. So there you go again.

A lot of these ads try to be something they aren't really. And those business models usually don't last that long. Because customers don't like to be lied to. The same goes for games that use "unethical" monetization strategies, like Farmville used to do (do they still secretly subscribe people to mobile phone services?). You find adds to those sites on blogs also.

In the long term I don't think professional blogs are helped with ads to those sites. Probably readers are smart enough to know that professional bloggers need a lot of ads to keep getting a worthy paycheck, and that they just subscribe to those ad-services.

Its just that every time I see those ads, something inside me says: "what are you trying to do, jackasses?"

I understand that this in turns cuts down on ad traffic which causes the advertisers to try even more out there things to catch the eye of those who are not ad blocking, so it's one vicious cycle.