One of the differences is that the same types of garbage ads that fill gossip magazines (and the back pages of good magazines like the New Yorker) is that these

One of the differences is that the same types of garbage ads that fill gossip magazines (and the back pages of good magazines like the New Yorker) is that these ads are being pushed to us front and center of nearly any site you visit. I avoid these ads in print. It is easy to not read magazine or skip the back ads. I don't even feel that I give the front ads of the New Yorker or the Economist much of my attention. I can easily passively avoid ads in print. Online, ads have become highly annoying and detract from the experience of website in a way that does not happen in print. I am not saying that I entirely avoid print ads. Back in the day of Creative Computing and Byte Magazine, I would pour over the ads as much as the editorial content. The ads were interesting to me.