g1smd - 9:58 pm on Dec 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

2. What can I do here?

On far too many sites, the only thing you want to do is "skip intro", but on far too many of those sites there's no such option.

On far too many sites, all you can do is sit and wait for an age, only for some awful flash video to play.

Can 2010 be the year that the splash page is abolished forever?

I doubt it.