Youtube ads which are inside videos, or play before videos are kind of intrusive since they block 1/10th or more of the video and even if you turn off the ad it still has that small "ad" button covering the video.
I also find it annoying when popular Youtube partners like Techzilla Daily tips, deliberately tell people to go to GoDaddy.com to register a domain with their "discount code" at the end of the video. I usually just fast foward over those ads, and I rather use another discount code which is a better deal.
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Toolbar marketing like those free programs which comes bundle with the Ask toolbar, or Google toolbar can be somewhat annoying as well.
I guest pop-ups are also kind of annoying, but they are easy to block since every decent web browser or tool-bar now comes with a pop-up blocker.
there are those which expands to fill the damn half screen of your browser when you just rollover your mouse accidentally. and it doesn't collapse back when you rollout your mouse, and that freaking close button is like so tiny. haha
I also find those Flash Ads for car ads kind of annoying since it has an animated car with sound and weird music and you have to wait for the ad to finish scrolling around your entire screen before the website is viewable.
Talking or auto-play music ads can be pretty annoying as well. They are getting worse since the animated character or video follows your mouse while you scroll down the page.
Redirection ads are also kind of annoying since you have to wait 5-15 seconds till it redirects you to the main page or click on the link. IGN.com and gamespot.com uses redirection ads the last time I went there.
But why do big sites have these ads? It's because they are making money from them. They aren't going to take them down if they are making money from them, and vice versa; they aren't going to keep them if they aren't gaining money.
I really dislike ads and because I upgraded Firefox for a plugin, I cannot use Ad Blocker anymore. But I do have ways of blocking certain sites from my browser.
But, forums which do not make much from the sales of products tend to make money by advertising or affiliate marketing banners and links in my experience.
I don't mind advertising as long as the site does not charge me a fee to read content. I think most people just learn to live with online ads since paying for ad-free content to read like magazines can be expensive.
Ads don't bother me. Pop-up ads do. Or ones with automatically playing video or sound, or that flash too brightly. Clean, simple ads are a staple of the internet community. Everything else is just annoying to me.
I notice there is a trend of bigger sites putting full page ads for 10-12 seconds before you can visit the website unless you click the link which says "Continue to the homepage".
Let me put it this way, do you like Youtube? Do you want it to stay up? Okay I think an 30 second ad isn't going to kill you. Go get a drink or something while it loads.
I hate any ads that get in the way of me trying to use a website.
Meanwhile, I enjoy the fact that the way the ads here (the free ads that you use FP to get. dur dur dur), happens to be non intrusive, and yet I still can see them, and will click if I just happen to be interested.
Not really an Ad, but those e-mail and name collection forms for newsletter which slowly fade/scroll in and disable the whole website till you either sign up for the newsletter or hit the X/close link on the window is kind of annoying.
I don't find small pop-ups very annoying if there is just one since I can easily just click on the main browser window, and close the pop-up when I have the time, and I think Chrome automatically minimizes pop-ups which are not blocked by the pop-up blocker.
