This will be on of the few topics I post on advertising on my site. First of all I really dislike advertisements but the ones that ESPECIALLY irk me are the flash advertisements that grow to massive proportions when you even just happen to mouse over. You will NEVER SEE ONE ON MY SITE, PERIOD. I will go to my grave before I allow this. Some of the others are the video's that auto play, the pop ups and pop unders as well as the ones that basically kill your screen till you click somewhere on them and even then you have to wonder if clicking the "X" will actually close it or give permission to hijack your browser while simultaneously selling your children, house, car and signing over all your assets. These will never be allowed on this site either.
What will be allowed are some small, no more than 350 x 350 pixel ads that may be animated gifs but generally will just be jpg's or png's with a little text as well. I will always have a small advertise banner on the top left of the news section with a few other blocks thrown in here and there. You will notice two types of blocks as well. Some will be static and some will rotate some different advertisers. This is a very small price to pay for a decent and easy way to get some news IMHO and I will be viewing the ads the same as everyone else. No ad blocking at all which also means I will be sure to have good control over what you see as well.
I MAY at some point in time setup a donation based opt out system for the advertisements but this will be farther down the road and if at some point I do there will be an option to sign up for a slot.
