Originally Posted by coominya

Some IT boffin told me years ago that the internet electricity bill is Massive and so was the costs related to running things like high traffic websites with constantly changing content. The cost for this was being subsidized by bank capital, stock issues and on a small scale by people's labours of love he said, but one day soon it will have to be passed on to the end user with things like subscriptions and high eBay fees and charges to use facebook.

I hate those huge popup ads that appear 30 seconds after you start to read a page and even the best adblocks don't seem to remove them. The only way is to use my phone with the java turned off or on the laptop, IE with security set to high.