"someone may have neglected that few moments of thought when accepting this ad."

How so?

We have a reputation for fair dealing when it comes to impartiality. Why would we want to refuse an advertiser, simply because we favourably reviewed a product?

There's no point to pursue here, so please don't try to infer otherwise just for the sake of scoring a debating point.

We'll investigate the irritation mentioned by some people, as we've said.

If its this http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/1/helproom/4086468/pca-samsung-galaxy-tab-101-video-advert/ The problem was reported previously.

Interesting point about making it clear it is an ad. I another thread about this I refer to it being a PCA review video not an ad.

Advertisements are everywhere; if you are smart, then don't look at them. Plenty of advice has been given on this forum to minimise their intrusion. You have got to live with them.

fourm member

Seems like a bit of a circular argument here, people are annoyed by the ads, there is a perfectly good way of blocking the ads but this apparently harms the site, so some people don't block them and they are then annoyed by the ads and moan about it on the forum.

If the use of the forum is so disrupted by the ads that people stop using it and go elsewhere then this also will harm the forum! I say if you are bothered by the ads block them like I do, if you don't want to block them out of some altruistic notion towards the massive multi national company that is IDG media then just stop moaning about them! I'm sure IDG won't be going into receivership on the basis of a few of us blocking their corporate messages.