I set up a new Windows machine the other day, using Chrome as my primary browser. Within five minutes of sitting down to do some browsing, I had loaded a page w

I set up a new Windows machine the other day, using Chrome as my primary browser. Within five minutes of sitting down to do some browsing, I had loaded a page with a Flash video ad, with sound, that started playing automatically. Sorry internet, but a few obnoxiously bad apples spoil the bunch. Websites I visit frequently I subscribe to (e.g. Ars Technica), but the massive amount of poor, distracting, or annoying ads, the poor layouts that are 60% ads and 40% content, and the pages that take literally 10-20 times longer to load because of all the (slow) external resources? Not worth it.