Have had counters banned on submits for about a week on Linkforsex as well - not that everyone reads the new rules
As far as advertisers - there are plenty of other ways to insert a counting script other than the sextracker and other counters - it wouldnt affect tgp posters or LL submitters as they can count theirs using server logs and a good stats program - the commercial counters that people have been complaining about tend not to be a good choice if you are looking for accurate stats as they usually get put on the bottom of the page and are affected if someone doesnt let the entire page load (which does happen a lot more than most think) with an average difference on my sites of at least 25 %.