Hey Lazarus,
All good. I appreciate the feedback.
As touched on above, the bills need to be paid, so we have some ads; them's the breaks.
Ads can certainly be excessive though, and become counter productive at that point IMO.
I think in Google's mind if adding extra Ads X, Y and Z increases revenue by 1% it's a success. It doesn't take into account if the change is massively irritating for everyone
I'm happy to just cover the bills and provide the site free for members, I'm not trying to squeeze every last cent out of the thing.
Anyway, Google got one past the keeper here with automatically running an experiment with some extra ads. It's fixed now.
See you on the firing line.