My understanding is that advertising helps pay for the site. It costs money to operate a site like psych central, and we all get to use it for free. Money from advertisers lets that happen. If we didn't have advertising we probably wouldn't have this great resource, or we might have to pay something to use it, which not everybody could afford.

Personally the advertising doesn't bother me. I just tend to ignore it, and it's not particularly intrusive.

Just me.

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