Today, I spent a significant portion of it surfing the net, and I couldn’t help but notice a constant supply of ads, becoming more and more prominent on the web. At first I thought, well it could be a fluke, but after the amount I’d seen rose above 10, I knew that the place had changed. Even Google are doing a Flash Video Ad service.

Even Windows Live Messenger has been including ads like this in their content (the one above was in Live Messenger, hidden until rollover). These are generally …