Today is a sad day for blogs. As I read through bloglines this morning, I'm finding feeds with ads from google. When feedburner added ads it was annoying, but now that google is on the bandwagon it will be overwhelming. I think adsense is a wonderful program (hence the adsense links below), but I will NOT subject my subscribers to ads. So far I have been greeted with "I make 4k$ a week off taking surveys" on a .net blog, irrelevant ads that z-index over images on a gadget blog, and general ADD tendencies to not even read a post because the ad caught my attention instead (which means the ad works, but at the expense of the blog). Maybe I'm being a little too critical on what seems like the first day, and just generally pissed that I now have to look at more ads. The funny part of all this is when I see a post I want to really read, I usually open it up outside bloglines. If I found value in the post it, I almost always click on at least 1 ad to support the site. I will NOT click on an RSS ad, though... stay the hell outta my aggregator.

/me hopes bloglines implements some type of ad blocking

/me starts looking for another aggregator thinking AskJeeves prolly isn't interested in that

Edit : Who needs askjeeves when you've got greasemonkey. Sam Ruby points out a GreaseMonkey js file that will block google's rss ads. Fantastic, and thank you