Of course not. People remain convinced that the internet will cease to exist without advertisements all over the place. Web pages are now 10mb+ in size, making

Of course not. People remain convinced that the internet will cease to exist without advertisements all over the place. Web pages are now 10mb+ in size, making 20 different DNS calls, all of which ad latency. And for what? To serve up advertisements wrapped around (or laying themselves over) the content that we came to read in the first place. Maybe i'm just old, but I fondly remember web pages that loaded reasonably fast over a 56k modem. these days, if I put anything on the web, I try to optimize it the best I can. Text only, minimal CSS, no javascript if at all possible. I hope more people start doing that.