In the last few days ads have been appearing like posts in the body of a thread. There will be a couple of posts and then an ad also appears in a box as if it were also a post. Personally, I find that means of presenting advertising intrusive whereas those in the sidebar or at the top or bottom of the threads don't bother me.
I have the option of disabling ads in the settings area, but I've never used the option. I basically don't object to ads unless the interfere with my scrolling and reading posts. At least some advertisers key in to the 'gardening' part of the site and occasionally have actual interest to me. However, I think now the option to disable ads may be put to use.
Is this really new or is the manner they are showing up something that others have noticed recently as well? I hope advertisers that utilize the presentation have to pay dearly for those, because it's really hard to overlook them.
