"In-line ads" - Love them or Hate them?

What are your guys opinions on using inline ad formats on a forum or other high traffic high text vessel?

 

I guess it all depends. As a user of course I prefer it with no ads at all, but I do understand that somehow the owner of the website has to make money.

To be honest, in-line text ads are usually my favorite, they aren't like the annoying graphical popup ads and I am much more likely to click on them.

If I see something I like, i'll make the click.

 

Hate them - they distract from the content of the website, which imo is a no-no.

 

As a user I don't know why I would want to have any kind of ad if I had a choice. Normally you don't have that choice. I'll say hate them.

donrock

 

I put them on some business blogs, on which putting Adsense would be even less professional...

 

HATE them!

Especially when you accidentally mouse over one and popups fill your screen...

 

I dislike them... if there's lots of them (and when they slow down page loading).

But...they arent' the most annoying (compared to pop-unders for example)

But - you gotta make money somehow, so that way they are ok