You can't make me watch ads on television, or listen to them on the radio, or read them in the paper.
This is true, but the analogy breaks down, because while no one can force you to pay attention to TV or radio ads, you can't make them not be there. You have to expend effort, each time, to ignore them -- even if that effort consists solely of tweaking the volume knob. You have to consciously react to them each time, and you have to wait for them to be over for the music or the ball game to come back on.
The difference here is that TV and radio ads happen over a fixed period of time and all in the same "place" -- your screen or speakers -- whereas the Web uses a totally different metaphor wherein there is no fixed period of time, and wherein users "move around" at will.
I would suggest something more on the order of a mute button for banner ads -- one that doesn't get rid of them outright, but that puts an end to any irritating flashing or bouncing back and forth that these ads might do. There's still a theoretical chance that you might click on the ad, because you can still see it, and if the animation annoys you then you probably wouldn't have clicked on the ad if it had been active anyway.
If the keys are far apart, then you hit them slower.
Not necessarily; only if they're two keys that you hit with the same finger. One popular theory is that the QWERTY keyboard was designed so that letters that tended to occur next to each other in English would not be struck by the same hand. Thus, while one hand is typing one letter, the other hand is readying to hit the second letter. This has the effect of speeding up your typing -- maybe only by the tenth of a second or so that it would have taken your finger to get from up in the air over one key to down on the next key, but those tenths add up when you're typing 100 wpm.
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You can't make me watch ads on television, or listen to them on the radio, or read them in the paper.
This is true, but the analogy breaks down, because while no one can force you to pay attention to TV or radio ads, you can't make them not be there. You have to expend effort, each time, to ignore them -- even if that effort consists solely of tweaking the volume knob. You have to consciously react to them each time, and you have to wait for them to be over for the music or the ball game to come back on.
The difference here is that TV and radio ads happen over a fixed period of time and all in the same "place" -- your screen or speakers -- whereas the Web uses a totally different metaphor wherein there is no fixed period of time, and wherein users "move around" at will.
I would suggest something more on the order of a mute button for banner ads -- one that doesn't get rid of them outright, but that puts an end to any irritating flashing or bouncing back and forth that these ads might do. There's still a theoretical chance that you might click on the ad, because you can still see it, and if the animation annoys you then you probably wouldn't have clicked on the ad if it had been active anyway.
If the keys are far apart, then you hit them slower.
Not necessarily; only if they're two keys that you hit with the same finger. One popular theory is that the QWERTY keyboard was designed so that letters that tended to occur next to each other in English would not be struck by the same hand. Thus, while one hand is typing one letter, the other hand is readying to hit the second letter. This has the effect of speeding up your typing -- maybe only by the tenth of a second or so that it would have taken your finger to get from up in the air over one key to down on the next key, but those tenths add up when you're typing 100 wpm.