&quot; potentially have your entire screen taken over with alerts offering to clean out the viruses found on you computer, the smart consumer is going to take option A every time.&quot;<p>The only time I&#x27;ve seen this is when I&#x27;ve gone to shady websites (porn, filesharing, etc).  Legitimate websites don&#x27;t want to piss off their user base and don&#x27;t have ads like this.<p>&quot;The problem is that much of the times ads are disruptive, annoying, and potentially harmful&quot;<p>Do you have statistics to back this up?  We seem to need scientific evidence in every other case, but with things like this, you can pull it out of thin air.<p>There are a small percentage of ads that are disruptive, but the majority are not.  It sounds to me like Sysadmins need to start doing their job.<p>&quot;The advertising industry, and those that employ it, need to aggressively move against bad practices, or the consumers will continue to do it for them.&quot;<p>The consumers will only get punished.  Ads are on their way out.  What&#x27;s becoming more popular?  Paywalls, ads disguised as movies&#x2F;videos&#x2F;actual content.<p>Think of things like Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.  This is the direct result of consumers creating a culture of avoiding ads.<p>How about if all of the major Internet providers decide to cut off anyone trying to use Bittorrent because of a small percentage of people abusing it for illegal content??<p>This is the equivalent of adblocker: punishing all businesses for the actions of a few.  Funny how the same people that are against this behavior has no problem using it when it is in their favor.<p>More bullshit hypocrisy.