These days when I surf the net, if I visit a pretty busy site I'm increasingly faced with tons of banner ads, pop up ads, and other stuff that slows my visit down.

WinCustomize has no pop up ads.
It has just one banner ad at the top and not even that if you're an apprentice on up or a subscriber.

And the 100 megabyte limit?

Here's where statistics become interesting:

In the past year, roughly 10 million unique people visited the site.

Roughly 12,000 people total have downloaded over 100 megabytes and a significant percentage of them are customers or people with apprentice access or up.

12,000 people eout of 10 million is 0.1%. And since it's a lot less than 12,000 that are actually affected, it's therefore less than 0.1%.

So in effect, WinCustomize is a pretty free browsing experience for over 99.9% of the yearly visitors.

Consider the path skinz.org has taken (http://www.skinz.org) -- seriously, check it out right now. Nothing wrong with their approach IMO, it's just a different one. I would perosnally rather visit a site with as little ads and no pop-ups as possible and have that site focus on just the <0.1% of the users who are using a lot of the resources.

Different sites try different things. They all have costs they have to pay. But I thought a look at the statistics and sharing them with you might provide a different way of looking at things.