Banners and ads do NOT account for thousands of dollars a month. The average payout for a banner is a penny per viewing, maybe $.10 if you get a "good" one. That's a LOT of banners to pay for a site that's doing gigs of transfer per month. Banners don't work, and everyone is finally starting to realize it. A shame, too, since that's a really good site. I hope he/they figure something out and get back online soon. LMOaH, you can software like Adsubtract to prevent banners from showing or to whack cookies and things like that. If the advertiser isn't getting their banner to show or cookie to be placed, what good is it doing them? That's kinda the jist as I gather it, but perhaps someone will provide a better explanation.