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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?
try a product like JunkBuster, or GuideScope
both are easy to use, and should take care of those pesky ads. why whine, when you don't even have to see them?
Apparently, if you take any of their story links and tack on "?x" it takes you straight to the story, skipping the ad.
Perhaps someone could make an add-on like junkbuster that would modify any URL at a given domain via a rule (s/.*salon\.com/$1?x/) or somesuch?
Downtown Springfield is a scene of terrible carnage as the monsters
wreak havoc. "These monsters are destroying everything and everyone we
hold dear!" laments Marge. "And you kids should have jackets on." Lisa
notices a copyright stamp in Lard Lad's footprint, with the name of the
company that built him, and she rides her bike there.
Lisa: If your advertising agency created all those giant characters, you
must know how to stop them.
Man: Well sir, advertising is a funny thing. If people stop paying
attention to it, pretty soon, it goes away.
Lisa: Like that old woman who couldn't find the beef?
Man: Exactly. If you stop paying attention to the monsters, they'll
lose their powers.
Lisa: But people can't help looking at them. They're wrecking the town.
[out the window, the monsters wreck the town]
Man: You know, maybe a jingle would help.
[plays a piano arpeggio, sings] Don't watch the mon --
[plays another arpeggio] Don't watch the...monsters-s-s.
[chuckles] Well, it'll sound a lot better coming out of Paul
Anka.
Outside, a crowd of people watch the monsters. Lard Lad bashes Jebediah
Springfield with his donut. Lisa addresses them with a megaphone.
Lisa: Hey, Springfield! Are you suffering from the heartbreak
of...Monster-itis? Then take a tip from Mr. Paul Anka!
[Paul waves, begins playing a small synthesizer and singing]
To stop those monsters, one-two-three,
Here's a fresh new way that's trouble-free.
It's got Paul Anka's guarantee...[winks]
Lisa: [singing] Guarantee void in Tennessee.
Together: [singing] Just don't look. Just don't look.
[people turn away; the monsters turn to look]
Just don't look. Just don't look.
[more people turn away]
Just don't look. Just don't look.
[the monsters try to destroy things faster, but start
collapsing]
Paul Bunyon falls on the Springfield General Hospital, his ox Babe
destroys the birthplace of Jebediah Springfield, and a flying magic
carpet destroys the birthplace of Norman Vincent Peale.
Lisa: [jubilant] It worked! They're all dead.
Bart: Well, except for chubsy-ubsy over there.
[everyone turns and gasps]
[Lard Lad tempts Homer with the giant donut]
Homer: Mmm...sprinkles.
Marge: Homer! Stop looking.
Lisa: Don't make us poke your eyes out, Dad.
[they drag him away]
Homer: [groaning] Oh!
[Lard Lad collapses]
-- The demise of the pudgy one, "Treehouse of Horror VI"
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