Basically:

The problem is not the ads, but that their not in context to the length of the content they are shown before. Who wants to watch a 15 second commercial ahead of 30-40 seconds of content?

@braddanick: "Chrome is heading dangerously close to the non-standard direction of Internet explorer. "

My own extension Patr for Flickr including a *cough* lightbox feature and much, much more! :)