[TJ]

There are a lot of annoying things in this world. I find commercials to be an annoyance, but I understand they are needed to keep programming on the air.

These Google AdSense vignette ads are capped, so I don't think they would appear more than once per session unless you are viewing 50+ pages. They should be easy to skip and exit by clicking the X in most cases. They are also some of the highest paying ads (about 4 or 5 times more than the traditional ads), so I would be reluctant to turn them off. They are keeping the site afloat.

I think the in-between page ads are far less annoying than the "sticky" anchor ads that stretch across the top or bottom of the screen. I turned off the anchor ads for desktop/wide screen. I want people to have a good user experience.

We already have far fewer paid page views in recent years due to declining traffic and more and more people using ad blockers. I wouldn't want to block the ad blockers like many news sites do, so hopefully people can tolerate them and whitelist our domain.