Video Advertisements Embedded Onto Yahoo Pages

So I'm browsing through Yahoo! news today, and upon clicking on one of the links the page begins to load... then my computer freezes up for about 10 seconds. Thankfully I didn't get the ol' blue screen, and I was able to resume what I was doing. Then all of a sudden I hear this horrific sound coming out of my headphones, and upon scrolling down the page just a bit more, I saw it.... an embedded video stream advertisement for Pringles of all things (a joke was made in the office that Yahoo! must have my profile on hand).

Now I think pop-up banners are the most annoying thing in the world, especially when they tie up my computer trying to load (can you say X-10 spy camera?). But this streaming video ad is much worse, because it crashed my browser, not once, but twice (I had to get a screenshot). And I'm on a T1... what happens to those who are using a modem? How long will their browser be tied up trying to serve this intrusive ad?

Now I think the new Absolut Flash ads that also show up on Yahoo's site are pretty cool; they don't tie up my computer and they are interactive. I'll stop going to Yahoo if they continue with the embedded streaming media though. I usually have many windows open at once, and I really don't feel like crashing my browser everytime I visit their site. If video advertisements on web pages are the wave of future, I might reconsider this whole web career I've got going on, for fear of guilt by association.