Since I'm not paying a dime, I can handle the ads. What I can't handle is 2 minutes of page bouncing because of them, or closing my browser session and coming back 4 hours later, opening it, and I'm still stuck on the same Freep page because of ads that refuse to close. Doesn't happen anywhere else. If any of our local sports teams were competitive, I would probably enroll for the on-line edition. At this point though, I don't need to verify that half the team can't cross the "Mendoza line". Watching it live is torture enough.