Internet advertising has and will probably forever remain the bane of user experience. But in some degree, ads have always had an escape plan. Be it clicking the close button, finding another site with the same content but doesn't force ads on you, or just clicking the "Skip this ad" button.

Lately, escape vectors are becoming harder to find and content providers, in the sake of "keeping content free" have begun to sell out and cheapen the user experience by providing no means to escape advertisements. Personally, I think this is bad behavior chiefly because it encourages bad tactics that will probably only get worse.

That prompts me to ask this: while we respect the objective of advertisements on the internet, do you think forcing advertisements on sites is a bad strategy? What are your thoughts on giving users no escape vectors to see the content they came to see?