Like Usenet, too many people have started talking about them. Personally, I don't mind the idea of ad-supported content. But the malware/exploitation risk, an

Like Usenet, too many people have started talking about them. Personally, I don't mind the idea of ad-supported content. But the malware/exploitation risk, and the utter distraction many moving, "noisy" ads cause me, continue to make it a non-starter for me, personally. Back in the "early days", I actually encountered and clicked through on a fair number of useful ads. But... as time went on, they did not remain useful, nor benign.