Intrusive Advertisments
May 21, 2017 10:18:52 #
Begin Rant:
In the late 50s/early 60s, I delivered (real) newspapers in Michigan. If, for even only one day, the newspaper had placed an advertisement as intrusive as the ones that dominate the web today, my daily delivery on my bicycle would have dropped from 130 to maybe 3! Imagine being forced to look at the ads on page 3 of your morning newspaper for 60 seconds before you can turn to page 4 and continue reading. These ads that hijack a page and force focus on the ad for 5-60 seconds do not make me want to buy the item advertised - they make me want to close the page they have hijacked. Not only do I not look at the hijacker's ad, I force myself to ignore all the other ads on that page. Content providers lose my business when they use these advertising techniques!
Ads should be placed above, below, to the right or left of the subject matter - but not in front - and they should not take control of my computer nor your webpages!
End Rant.
Thank You, I feel better now.
In the late 50s/early 60s, I delivered (real) newspapers in Michigan. If, for even only one day, the newspaper had placed an advertisement as intrusive as the ones that dominate the web today, my daily delivery on my bicycle would have dropped from 130 to maybe 3! Imagine being forced to look at the ads on page 3 of your morning newspaper for 60 seconds before you can turn to page 4 and continue reading. These ads that hijack a page and force focus on the ad for 5-60 seconds do not make me want to buy the item advertised - they make me want to close the page they have hijacked. Not only do I not look at the hijacker's ad, I force myself to ignore all the other ads on that page. Content providers lose my business when they use these advertising techniques!
Ads should be placed above, below, to the right or left of the subject matter - but not in front - and they should not take control of my computer nor your webpages!
End Rant.
Thank You, I feel better now.
May 21, 2017 10:41:00 #
Keldon
Loc: Yukon, B.C.
I simply close the page that the ad has intruded upon and don't bother going back to it.
May 21, 2017 13:10:35 #
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