View something on the internet while at the same time, you see this flashing banner or internet advertisements that help pay for the site and keep the site content free for you to view. By clicking on the Internet advertisement it will not affect what you are looking at.
In these cases, clicking on an Internet advertisement and it will or should open in another window, by doing this you are in fact helping to keep the site free to view for many others as well as yourself.
This often occurs on game websites when there is called the intermission to the game. A lot of Internet advertisements will show up until the beginning of the next game. In these cases, you can wait until the intermission is over, or while waiting simply click on an Internet advertisement and it will open a new a window for you. In a big way its hard to explain how companies that put these Internet advertisements make money or help to keep the website free for others to view, however that is exactly what happens.
In fact, in some cases, the Internet advertisements pertain to things associated with the website. For instance, if you are on a gaming website, the Internet advertisements will...