For years, since I have had broadband, I haven’t paid much mind to Internet advertising. Often the ads weren’t overly intrusive. Even the ad-break when reading articles on sites like the New York Times‘ Web site hasn’t been too annoying, since the skip link has been easy to find. (Now there’s a disable link, which fools you into paying to disable ads on some sites.)

However, I have recently found more and more pages I visit have these awful, intrusive, and cluelessly placed ads from Vibrant Media. Frankly, they’re pissing me off. As a result, bye bye to ads. I’m finally installing the AdBlock extension with Filterset.G on Firefox on all the machines I browse the Web on and adding some firewall rules to drop any traffic routing through Vibrant Media. Additionally, someone has written a script for the Greasemonkey Firefox extension that will disable Vibrant Media’s ads by using their own JavaScript against them. Sweet.

You pissed me off guys.

You lose.