User blog comment:Tedgill/Making Ads Better: How We're Going to Do It/@comment-31811098-20170121004905/@comment-26402117-20170121124914

No, it's not a joke. I simply do not frequent a site that has a terrible ad experience, rather than kicking the ads out. That way, I'm not using their bandwidth and they're not getting my attention.

If you are willing to treat the Acceptable Ads program as a greater-good solution rather than a cunning business scheme, then we must beg to differ. I hated opening up a site, seeing "Please switch off your adblocker" banners in ad spaces and then realizing the ads were nice static images. Happened on Pastebin, Reddit, quite a lot of places.