Yes, I find them annoying too!
When you are a WordPress user, as is Learning from Dogs, you can pay $30 a year to stop advertisements from appearing on one’s blogsite.
This is how WordPress explain their policy on advertising:
We sometimes display advertisements on your blog to help pay the bills. This keeps free features free! We only run them in limited places, and we do not show ads to logged-in readers, which means only a very small percentage of your page views will actually contain ads. To eliminate ads on your blog entirely, you can purchase the No-Ads Upgrade for a single blog (per year).
I choose not to pay that upgrade, despite the ads being annoying; of that I have no doubt.
For this reason.
WordPress pay an amount of their advertising income to the owner of the blog. Thus twenty-four hours ago, WordPress sent me an email:
Just thought you’d like to know WordPress.com sent you $106.23 USD.
I’m not sure but I think that covers the last twelve months.
That $106 will be divided into two with $53 staying with Jean and me and $53 going to our nearest humane society; Rogue Valley Humane Society.
Just wanted to let you know.
Learning from Dogs 
I had no idea they shared advertising income. I might go to a free blog!
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Are you using a WordPress platform? I presume so. With your level of readership it might pay for the milk!
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It would pay for more than the milk! I think a few margaritas, too!
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Seriously, if you want to implement the change and needed a quick opinion on the differences, very happy to oblige.
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I just applied to WordAds since my WordPress upgrade doesn’t expire until March 2015. Found WordAds in the WordPress forums.
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Sing out when the change is active on your site! Ergo, just been across and not seen any differences so far. (Going to be away from the PC soon for a couple of hours.)
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They have to approve my application and such. I don’t know how long that will take, but I’m suspecting at least two or three days.
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OK.
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So cool, Paul. I don’t have a free blog, as I pay yearly for my own domain. However, I did not pay for the Ad-Free Upgrade, and I know they advertise on my blog because of that little notification at the bottom of each post. Hmm. Wonder if I get any cashola???
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Kate, I can tell you the ads never catch my eye when I visit your blogsite. Plus, despite being a blogger now for nearly 5 years (July 15th is 5) the payments have been sporadic. One of my ‘to-do’s’ is to query that on the WordPress support forum. Task list item number 4,378!!
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