You Will Read Our Ads, And Like It

sheister writes "over at myciti.com they are asking members to agree to a new set of terms before using the service, including "'..we may display advertisements and promotions of all kinds on our web site(s) and you agree not to disable any technology required or utilized to serve or display such advertising;' Has anyone else noticed pushy Terms and Conditions like this on the web?"

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Re:Who cares?

[sweetooth]

Unfortunatly if part of the reason you are blocking ads is bandwidth conservation then banner blinds doesn't do you nearly as much good as not loading them in the first place. This is one of those things like not loading images at all, or only loading images from the originating web server etc. Of course those have thier own issues. For example many sites use dedicated servers for image serving like images.slashdot.org. Then again, if you are trying to conserve bandwidth you probably could care less if the pages standard graphics load either.

Why's a BANK need to push advertising this hard?

[orthogonal]

On first reading this submission, I assumed myciti was a content provider of some kind. And I figured, if I wanted their content that badly, I'd just pay for it. More likely, it wasn't something I needed more than I need my peace -- and buzzy banner ads manage to disrupt my peace far far more often than they encourage me to buy anything. After all, I've already given up reading washingtonpost.com at home, as I'm not even able to register with them using Mozilla.

But myciti.com isn't a content provider; it's a banking/investment service. Presumably, if I take the trouble to browse there, it's because I think I might want to see what services they offer.

But apprently they assume their services are so worthless that before I'd purchase those services, I'd have to be overcome by their advertising. Or they think their marketting position is so precarious, they must have a captive audience.

Or perhaps they're confident in their services but want to subject me to ads for their third-party affiliates? Is citibank worried they can't profit without selling my eyes to third parties?

Whatever the case, it appears that citibank isn't doing so well. Either their products don't sell without extensive, in-your-face advertising, or the company isn't profitable without selling marketting in addition to investment products.

Either way, it seems a good indication -- one might say an invitation even -- to stay away from citibank.

And that's what I'll be doing, thanks.

Slashdot Ads

[smallfries]

Strange that in this discussion, which is about being forced to accept advertising, nobody has mentioned Slashdots policy or the thread that got bitchslapped for debating the pro's and con's of disabling the ads here...

Now, what are the odds that this post is modded offtopic?