QUOTE(Nozomu @ May 25 2004, 11:54 AM)
Yes, Steam is totally ad-less and free. Unless you account for the fact that to sign up you are required to give them an active email account. They can then sell that information to anybody. Oh, and there's the fact that they can track which games you play and sell that information to advertisers as well. I'm pretty sure I can also find Codename: Gordon with Bittorrent and enable it with a crack from GameCopyWorld without the risk of receiving all those nasty advertisement emails. So I'll stay away from Steam, thank you very much.
Then why exactly did you even ask the question in the first place if your going to answer it yourself?