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While I agree that this does not help, I just dislike ads in general. Be it on a website, on tv, on the street or on my underware. I just dislike ads.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...

banksy (Will look for the place where he got it from. It is not his, he adapted it.)

http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...
http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...

banksy (Will look for the place where he got it from. It is not his, he adapted it.)

http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...
http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...

Neat story about that quote.

Part 1: http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

Part 2: http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss_conclusion

Neat story about that quote.

Part 1: http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

Part 2: http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss_conclusion

That's actually not Banksy's quote, it's heavily lifted from another dude, Sean Tejaratchi: http://www.readingfrenzy.com/l...

Nonetheless it's an excellent quote and I support your ideal, but I still think static images and links is a good starting point for all sides.

For the websites that want to display ads, it still allows them to make money and shows respect for those visiting the site by showing that the site is willing to take responsibility for the content of the ads they are selling, eliminates malware vectors, etc. Plus they get something almost uncircumventable by modern ad blockers.

For the people who just don't want to be tracked or annoyed by blinking/audio/animation/video it eliminates that as well.

For people like you, me, Banksy and Sean Tejaratchi, we can use Element Hiding Helper or similar tools to "take, re-arrange and re-use" the static ads we come across, as is our right on our local machines.

Not exactly Bansky's quote. (Tejaratchi)