Kane
I have many names
Remarkably enough, beggars can't be choosers.
That's not a question about beggars, it's about a bit of goddamn authenticity.
As for your idea of limiting advertising to static ads, about half of them shown are static and they get practically no clicks. If it doesn't move, it's just that much easier to ignore.
Conversely, blinking old hags will incentivise people to use adblock, resulting in fewer clicks. lose/lose.
I think everyone here agrees that advertising is evil, but a neccessary one. Personally, I think advertising works best if you can persuade the user to click or at least tolerate the ad instead of aggressively shoving it up his face. (That's ironically also what every advertiser wants.) The latter will just result in total refusal (i.e. adblock). Having unobtrusive, clickable ads together with regularly drumming up support seems to work best from my experience. People are simply much more likely to accept something if you can sell it to them - you can't sell them blinking old hacks.