Adblocking software is your friend. Your ticket to Internet surfing joy.
Safari
Pith Helmet: extended prefs and ad blocking. Beta support for Safari 3. $10
Saft: extended prefs and ad blocking. Beta support for Safari 3. $12.
Camino
Ad blocking and Flash animation blocking are
built in. <3 Camino. Free.
Firefox
Adblock &
Flashblock: Flashblock gets everything that Adblock doesn't. Free.
IE
Er, I have no idea what people still using IE do to block ads. Sling me a link and I will edit.
My personal corollary to this practice: I pay for services I use often. My LJ account is paid. I pay for Salon. I pay for Pandora. And so on. But I do so love never having to see
this image. For instance.