Personally, I don't mind the ad here at FT. I am very appreciative to the huge bank of info offered by Randy and fellow FTers. I learn to deal with ads over the years visiting free websites.

What I am bothered with, like Westcoaster had pointed out, the interference of the ad with the post. The point of putting up any ad is to lure or attract "potential" customers, isn't it? If it ends up only to attract "resentment" from the customers, what's good about it? Can those great mind doing the FT goooogle ad come up a better way not to interfere the reading of any post/thread?

Or, DO they care?