Online Advertising Rant

Not specifically related to online dating but, I really hate how some of those online text ads work at some websites. If you click on the white space near them, it acts like I clicked on the actual ad. This happens to me all the time. As example, if I am reading an email and then return to the browser. I click on a blank space within the website to bring the browser into focus so I can use the scroll wheel of the mouse. Not only does this bug the user but it's ripping off the person paying for the ad since I am not an interested in the product or service.

I'm in no way against online advertising, just on how some company's do it. Google Adsense does it correctly by requiring the visitor to click on the title of the text ad.

Other advertising tools I dislike include ad web page pop ups (who doesn't) and fake chat programs that appear when I browse away from a particular website (are you listening Date.com?).