Maybe he did died?

Seriously though, I never heard of the guy.

Google ads are actually a lot less obnoxious than any other company's ads that I have come across.

The other question is whether a lot of site that display ads do actually profit from them. Many users have ad blockers installed or turn away as soon as they see any kind of blinking banner (I do).

When someone tells me "you can't do that", I usually assume they are against it and want to imply that doing that would be the stupidest thing ever.