Welcome. For quite a number of years I've been trying to work out why my Anglefire page looks so totally wasted and trashed and I've finally worked it out.

After Lycos took over Angelfire.com they gradually phased out support for "free" hosted sites and agressively increased its use of advertising on fre hosted sites to the point that people resorted more and more to using browsers and ad-blocker plugins. 

This practice bacame so intrusive globally that browsers now come fully fitted ith admirably functioning, ad-blockers, pop up, pop under, po over filters and the option to switch on or off various scripts, the most common being javascript.

In trying to trouble shoot problems with my site,  I switched off my ad-blocker and to my surprise the page was completely covered with advertising: 

:- advertising in the header,

:- advertising in the footer - actually covering the content on my single screen page, and

:- hovering advertising the occupeied the middle of the page 

There is almost nowhere on the page that you can click without hitting click  advertising. The page is completely held hostage to this advertising and the only way of removing it is to give in to Lycos' advertisment driven extortion and pay for hosting OR use an ad-blocker and risk not having my site look completely the way I want it to.

This is really quite tragic. My site has been continuously on the web since January 11, 1995 - 25 years with Angelfire, and I still use it. It is not a ghost site, long forgoten and uncared for, occupying wasted bits of storage on some dust crudded server somewhere. 

I will continue to use my ad-blocker and continue to maintain my angelfire connection until they terminate free hosting altogether, but I'll be damned if I'll give in to this blatant abuse and extortion by Lycos, in particular of long term, active, and and otherwise loyal users.