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Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads
macsforever2001 writes: "It looks like Salon is going to try to ram ads down our throat in a very offensive manner according to this Yahoo article. Now they won't directly link to articles, but instead link to a Web Ad which then links to the article you want. I think Slashdot needs a new category just for Web Advertising." Not as if web ads weren't already becoming more annoying, but the companies that run Web ads are probably as interested in ads that people don't hate as you are in not seeing the awful ones. What can we tell them?
How long before we start seening adds on our bios and windows boot-up screens..
its only a matter of time..
Cruise TT
Just start using lynx as your default browser.
Steven V>
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
I follow the like to the Yahoo! page talking about bad advertising tactics, what happens? One of them damn X-10 camera adds pops-up. Geesh...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
We're sorry! We promise to click on those banner ads! We were being bad little surfers. Just don't torture us anymore!
I recall in the late eighties the sheer outrage directed at someone who had the audacity to post a *gasp* commercial message in a newsgroup.
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If advertisers would have just stuck to those. They didn't really annoy anyone. Well, there is always the "principle" guys. Those that invented the (unnecessary imo) filters.
Anyway, I am prepared to pay for services, at reasonable prices. One of the ways to pay is by viewing (and possibly clicking) on ads online. I say that is a fair price as long as the ads are not thrown in my face.
I have full understanding that it costs money to be online - and I am prepared to support good content online.
Furthermore, I think that if advertisers hadn't done what they have done, which is going to stupid extents to try and draw our attention, they would still be able to live on advertising.
I mean, if an ad interests me, I actually click on it. Such as those that appear here on slashdot for instance - they get my interest now and then. A popup ad however... it gets killed before it can show me anything. Not to mention those that popup 5 and try to set themselves as my start page and so on...
And no. I will not get any filters or similar. For the first thing, I should not need it. For the second, see above: I actually support online advertisments that are targetted, discreet and "good" (whatever that means).
If ads is a way to pay for, and encourage good online content, by all means bring them on. But keep to banners. Those that are interested WILL click on your ad!!! Those that are not will not because you give them 200 popups.
Thank you.
I tried to read the Yahoo story, but a huge x10 ad popped up and took over my screen. How's that for irony.
There can be no compromise!
We must declare a War on Ads!
We will fight at the internet, we will fight at websites, we will fight at our browsers, but we will never give in!
The only good ad is a dead ad!
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