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@&$*^!@ damn ads all over the web

rh71

rh71

No Lifer
How the hell annoying are all these Flash ads that "pop-up" and take over your screen? Don't get me wrong, I'm a Flash developer myself, but it's so friggin annoying how these services allow the sort of disruption it causes. You've seen them in Yahoo Mail and whatnot... and I just went to weather.com for the damn temperature/forecast. Both pages I had to go thru had their own special blow-up ads... wha'ts worse is that you don't have the option to skip/close it right away. And when you do, the next page you go to has the same ad, even though you closed it in the previous page.

Yeah, so ads pay for the free services. They have to draw the line somewhere or this !@$&@$ is gonna get outta hand. "You get what you pay for?" Well I have never heard of anyone paying to get weather information. Sons of $%!ches.

If this is the future of the internet, it's gonna be #@%&ing treacherous. G'damn it now I gotta go back to weather.com because I forgot what I went there for...

Have a good night.
 
I have noticed a big increase in these myself and figure it is due to the success of popup killer programs and the like. I guess like anything else this will turn into endless rounds of advertising methods and countermeasures to the new method much like goes on in electronic countermeasure systems.
 
awww, that butterfly and rhino are cute!




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I HATE those ads. You go to yahoo to search for something, and a bear in a tutu riding a lawmower goes driving across the screen. (not really, but that would not surprise me)
 
just be thankful you can get it free... it's amazing how many people will bitch when they can't have everything perfect.

Things do cost money, but more and more people want things for free, and more and more people are trying to stay afloat. Just quit whining...
 
Consider these forms of advertising your punishment for continuing to use IE, when you could simply use another browser and never see one again.

Mozilla
Opera

And tohse are just the most popular alternatives. There are as many browsers out there as there are annoying ads that only work in IE.

If you won't switch, then you will just have to remove flash and disable java.
 
All you have to do for a lot of those ads instead of watching them is just hit refresh as soon as the page starts to load and they won't play the second time.
 
Well I have never heard of anyone paying to get weather information
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TV = ads + cable bill
Newspaper = ads + subscription
Phone = paid for out of your phone bill
So where do you get your "free" weather information?

How do you expect weather.com to run their servers, create content, and pay for bandwidth and maybe make a profit without ad revenues? Someday the web might get the mythical micropayments to give you ads-free weather for 0.001, until then enjoy the ads 🙂
 
I had the same thing happen when I went to check weather.com this morning. Huge big bloated ad takes over the entire screen and you have to wait for it to get outta the way. If you want to put advertising on your page, that's fine, plaster banners everywhere, just don't completely block your own page and piss off your visitors.

BTW... I do often use Mozilla but it freezes up occasionally since my computer kinda sucks. New one on the way though, and mozilla for good once it gets here.
 
Listen, I only have a problem with the way they're FORCING it upon us. I have no problems with ads like the ones I see up top of this screen (no I don't subscribe). I have no problems with a square ad that takes up half the screen either, as long as it doesn't focus itself where I cannot do a damn thing for seconds at a time. All I'm saying is these service providers / content managers should draw the line and say to the advertisers that such and such looking ad will keep people from coming back if it gets in the way of "our" content. Get it?

What, you think I'm in 4th grade and can't understand economics?
 
Originally posted by: gooneygoon
Listen, I only have a problem with the way they're FORCING it upon us.
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No, they are not. You are willingly going to their site.
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You mean that you don't get annoyed if YOUR favorite webpage (not that weather.com is mine) contains pop-up ads that take focus of 75% of your screen as you enter the page and every subsequent one? The point is that you need to get to that page to find the information. Once you're there, you're force-fed the ad.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: gooneygoon
Listen, I only have a problem with the way they're FORCING it upon us.
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No, they are not. You are willingly going to their site.
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You mean that you don't get annoyed if YOUR favorite webpage (not that weather.com is mine) contains pop-up ads that take focus of 75% of your screen as you enter the page and every subsequent one? The point is that you need to get to that page to find the information. Once you're there, you're force-fed the ad.
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No I don't get annoyed.

Thing is, I understand that running all this stuff costs money.

What I see is a lot of people like yourself thinking the internet was going to stay free forever. Well, it isn't the moneymaker that everyone thought it would be.

Check the stock market again if you want to be assured of that point.

 
You need to re-read what I've posted 3 times in this thread. WHERE DID I SAY THAT I EXPECTED NO ADS? You're missing my point.
 
I think it is evolving much like it once did with radio and television. Back in the early days of TV the ads were part of the programs themselves. The program intro's normally contained product ads such as Geritol presents the Ted Mack Amateur Hour or Lucky Strike presents the Lucky Strike Your Show of Shows etc. As time progressed the methods changed to what we are familiar with now. The thing to remember with the internet is they are still trying to figure out which type of advertising works best.
 
What comapnies need to realize is that alot of those ads turn the customer away from the product.

If a company runs those sorts of ads I make sure I never buy a product from them (cept for coke 😛 )
 
I hate those websites.

I think IGN.COM is one of the worst. It used to be one of my favorite sites until they went subscriber and put up a TON of those damn ads.

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Originally posted by: gooneygoon
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: gooneygoon
Listen, I only have a problem with the way they're FORCING it upon us.
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No, they are not. You are willingly going to their site.
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You mean that you don't get annoyed if YOUR favorite webpage (not that weather.com is mine) contains pop-up ads that take focus of 75% of your screen as you enter the page and every subsequent one? The point is that you need to get to that page to find the information. Once you're there, you're force-fed the ad.
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No I don't get annoyed.

Thing is, I understand that running all this stuff costs money.

What I see is a lot of people like yourself thinking the internet was going to stay free forever. Well, it isn't the moneymaker that everyone thought it would be.

Check the stock market again if you want to be assured of that point.
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Where did he say he wanted the internet to stay free forever??

I read this:
I have no problems with ads like the ones I see up top of this screen (no I don't subscribe). I have no problems with a square ad that takes up half the screen either, as long as it doesn't focus itself where I cannot do a damn thing for seconds at a time.
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