I'm a user of JavaCoolSoftware's SpywareBlaster so I don't get to see the "wonderful" adverts that seems to be in question. Pages load faster and I have far less ads and spam from the media advertisors. The interface of Live-Mail works hoever I'm not very impressed as yet with their "Live" services. Especially the Live-MSN-Maps_&_Directions. (I go there for a map first and THEN if I need directions... and TRULY dislike being forced to supply a starting location in order to get anything. I hope somebody from MS is "listening"... your gonna lose ground to google-earth because of it.)