&gt;The greed and avarice, of content producers and advertisers, destroyed what could have been a workable solution (ads)...<p>I understand how content producers can be blamed for the state of internet advertising but I don&#x27;t understand why the advertisers are also implicated. It&#x27;s the content producers who manufacture and sell the advertising product. If an advertiser doesn&#x27;t buy the product his competitor will.