getting fed up with LiveJournal

So, I am one of those people who has a free account, and as a consequence I see ads displayed on pages when I am on LiveJournal. I have no problem with this. It is a way for LJ to make money off of me, and it's fine, and I fully accept that it is the trade-off for my not forking over for a paid account.

BUT, recently there has been a new type of ad that darkens my entire screen and interferes with my ability to see what I am looking at. It started around the time of the no-email-alerts-on-comments debacle, and it's been gradually happening more and more frequently to the point where I am getting seriously pissed off. It's all right to show me ads, but NOT all right for those ads to keep me from the content on the site! (And by the way, I always close out my browser immediately so I have yet to even see what the ad is for -- something you folks might want to consider, LJ-gods, because I'm sure I'm not the only one.)

I would go ahead and just pay for an account except for two things: 1) I really, really do not want to link my RL identity with this blog. I admit to a certain paranoia about it, but I simply never want my professional identity and my fanfic-writer identity to meet, and I do whatever I can to support that firewall. 2) The more LJ pisses me off with their new "no, we won't let you see the page" style of advertising, the less inclined I am to want to support them by giving them any money.

Anyone else having these issues? (I think a lot of you have paid accounts, so maybe not.) Also, if I do decide to capitulate, does anyone know if a manual payment through PayPal would do a good job of hiding my identity, or would my real name (which I obviously need to give to PayPal in order for them to process my credit card) show up?

getting fed up with LiveJournal

So, I am one of those people who has a free account, and as a consequence I see ads displayed on pages when I am on LiveJournal. I have no problem with this. It is a way for LJ to make money off of me, and it's fine, and I fully accept that it is the trade-off for my not forking over for a paid account.

BUT, recently there has been a new type of ad that darkens my entire screen and interferes with my ability to see what I am looking at. It started around the time of the no-email-alerts-on-comments debacle, and it's been gradually happening more and more frequently to the point where I am getting seriously pissed off. It's all right to show me ads, but NOT all right for those ads to keep me from the content on the site! (And by the way, I always close out my browser immediately so I have yet to even see what the ad is for -- something you folks might want to consider, LJ-gods, because I'm sure I'm not the only one.)

I would go ahead and just pay for an account except for two things: 1) I really, really do not want to link my RL identity with this blog. I admit to a certain paranoia about it, but I simply never want my professional identity and my fanfic-writer identity to meet, and I do whatever I can to support that firewall. 2) The more LJ pisses me off with their new "no, we won't let you see the page" style of advertising, the less inclined I am to want to support them by giving them any money.

Anyone else having these issues? (I think a lot of you have paid accounts, so maybe not.) Also, if I do decide to capitulate, does anyone know if a manual payment through PayPal would do a good job of hiding my identity, or would my real name (which I obviously need to give to PayPal in order for them to process my credit card) show up?