No ad is a "good" ad, sorry. I don't want to visit BN (just using it as an example, not calling Blue out) and get bombarded with six ads in six different places THAT ARE ALL THE SAME AD. Especially the Flash animated ones that take fucking forever to load. Further, I don't want to visit BN and have some yuppie fucking ad trying to sell me a Prius. Not only will I never buy a Toyota, it has nothing to do with the content of the site itself.
I understand there are costs involved with running a website. Blue has asked before that, in place of ads, would people be willing to pay subs. Yes, yes I would. If the difference between reading BN every day and never seeing BN again is $5/month, I'll gladly pay that 5 bucks a month. That's $70 a year which means that, with tax included, it's one less console shovel-ware crapfest that I'll purchase.
Now that they've made their decision public, I'll make sure to spread how to turn it off to as many friends as possible via as many outlets as possible.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau