A banner is an ad and an ad is always forced.
Irrelevant to the browsing experience - did not interfere whatsoever...
No, surely not. Takes attention, take space in my screen, don't let me get to the point, save temporary files in cache in my disk, etc. etc.
Opera is better now.
If you think like that then you must avoid all software and websites with ads on them...
If I can choose, I'll browse the page without adds. More than this, a lot of firewalls are just sweeping the adds away just with the [AD] trick.
A lot of users don't want adds at all. The number of Opera downloads increased by millions in the same day they remove adds. Coincidence?
Does all of this really matter?
Nope - it's all in the past...
After all, we can share our opinions and have fun here
Thanks Jedi.