...then web advertising companies with names like Eyeblaster and EyeWonder will be sent, en masse, off to the gulags.

The four companies have developed technologies that make it hard to avoid Web advertisements. Eyeblaster produces flash-animated pop-up ads; PointRoll technology expands ad banners when a mouse cursor touches it; EyeWonder lets advertisers stream video commercials onto a Web page; and Unicast creates ads that allow users to navigate within them without leaving a Web site.

I know, TANSTAAFL and all that, and Yahoo has to pay for their copious free services some way. But, damn, I hate the current competition to make ads so unavoidable, so eye-grabbing, so intrusive that you cannot but help interact with them, to be no end of an annoyance.

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Everyone complains about companies like Eyewonder, but we should do something about it. As consumers, advertisers actually do pay attention to our opinions. We can stop companies like this.
Please help in signing this petition that will be forwarded onto Eyewonders' clients in an effort to have them look elsewhere when it comes time for them to advertise on the web. Check out the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/ew000/petition.html
Thanks!

I'm not sure that online petitions do much more than make people feel like they're doing something, but it's certainly worth making noises about a boycott.