Yeah so...I go on to custo today and I hear this voice start talking over my music and confused the hell out of me. Turns out it was an ad at the top of the custo page that I just muted. I'm not complaining or anything...I just thought it was hilarious...
This leads me to ask...what are the most annoying ads/popup's you've seen lately?
05:58 pm, Tuesday, February 14, 2006 (3 years ago)
Go to the main page and refresh about 20 times. This'll usually kick in the anti-inflation mechanism that the ad providers use to keep sites from inflating their pageview numbers, and afterwards you should only see PSA ads for the next few weeks.
A company I'm working with is developing a piece of code which will block users who have ads disabled. I'm skeptical of their ability to get it working, but if they do, I expect it'll be embraced across the entire internet.
"I'm going to use your bandwidth and read your content, but I'm going to disable the ads which allow you to pay for that bandwidth and content." -- that's a shitty, selfish attitude, especially since 99% of all internet advertising is inobtrusive.
: I paid $14 for a T-shirt and all I got was this stupid T-shirt :
i hate ads. not all ads though. just the ones that are obtrusive, noisy, flashing, bouncing, spinning, in anyway shape or form moving, the ones that popup on top of the page you're reading and wont go away. i hate it when ads have mulitple close buttons, or the ones that resize so that the real close button is just off screen. aside from ads that have crap ass music, ads that tell me i have viruses are just about as annoying as they can get.
and status: i dont pay to have my bandwidth taken up by ads. maybe ive clicked an ad that i saw once in my internet browsing history, but aside from that the more annoying the ad is the faster i close the window. and, if the company does come up with that little peice of code that you're talking about. 1) sites wont want it. web sites wont want people not to be able to look at the site. 2) ad companies will have to pay more to get their ads on web sites. 3) less people will be viewing the ads. (who wants to pay more money to get less?) 4) people will just surf somewhere else.
and 99% of all internet advertising is inobtrusive? when did you come up with that?
I hate the ads that screw with your window order/focus, sometimes they open up on top of the window im browsing, so right as i hit ctrl+w to close it, it switches itself under the window im in, and refocuses the window i was browsing, so i accidentally close the window im in, that really pisses me off. I also hate ads with noise, especially the damn paparazzi one, thank god for flashblock/adblock/noscript. But i have to suffer these ads when at work. Also, the stupid flash ads that side into the middle of the page you're browsing, and either have a hard to find close button or one that is off the page/unclickable...
-- i dont pay to have my bandwidth taken up by ads
Writers, artists, and website developers don't pay to host their content just for your happy fun-time use. I'm pretty sure most people who invest 50 to 80 hour work weeks in their websites are doing it to make a living. You don't like their ads? Don't use their content, problem solved. If custo's ads bother you, find skins somewhere else. I'm sure there are plenty of ad free customizing sites.
Oh wait, there aren't? Hosting a major website costs thousands of dollars and advertising is the only way to recoup those sites? Wow!
-- sites wont want it. web sites wont want people not to be able to look at the site.
That's on par with saying Walmart wouldn't want to prevent shoplifting because they want people to come in their store. That's absurd.
If you go to a concert, you pay to get in. If you go to the movies, you pay to get in. If you go to a website, it's free to view that content because the ADVERTISERS are paying for you to see it. If you block ads, you should have to pony up to see the site, that's only fair.
-- ad companies will have to pay more to get their ads on web sites.
Congratulations on your junior-high level understanding of economics.
Let me ask you something, if some third party started offering scans of magazines with all of the ads cut out of the pages, what would that do to the magazine industry, the advertising industry, and the commercial viability of that content? It would TANK the entire industry.
But it's worse for websites. At least magazines get a few modest dollars in subscription fees to offset their printing costs, websites have ONLY their ads to depend on for revenue.
-- less people will be viewing the ads.
wtf?! banning people who block ads from reading a website will result in less people viewing their ads?
-- people will just surf somewhere else.
That's the idea.
: I paid $14 for a T-shirt and all I got was this stupid T-shirt :
