What I have never understood is the willingness of people to accept ad ridden web services when some years ago everybody had their panties in a bunch when Opera

What I have never understood is the willingness of people to accept ad ridden web services when some years ago everybody had their panties in a bunch when Opera or Getright had ads in their software. Back when I was part of a EU research project, we could not use Skype, DimDim or any other video-conference platform because a lot of stuff we worked was protected as the author comments under a lot of privacy contracts.