Let my throw my commment into the huge pile of "because I don't want to see them". As long as the browser controls the way the server's information is presented, I will continue to view web pages in the manner I prefer. I go to websites for specific content. Ads are not only explicitly not the content I came for, they are attempting to get me to go to some other page.
I am frankly bewildered that advertizers might object to this behavior. I ask for a carrot, you give me a potato chip and a carrot and object when I turn my nose up at the potato chip. If I had wanted a potato chip, I would have ASKED for one. If advertizers want to suceed on the internet, they need to learn to fill needs that users have, not continue to try to create needs users did not know they had.
Be thankful for your cubical. One of the top level executives at our company decided that cubicals cut down on inter-departmental communication. So... down came the cubical walls. I now work in a totally open office. EVERYONE can see what is on my monitor ALL THE TIME. Since I spend a large part of my time doing solid modeling and FEA work, I have an audience far more often than I would like. I do not work well in a fishtank. Ironically, the home office (where top-lvl-exec spends most of his time) has cubicals. Just us unwashed red-headed step children that can't.
The only silver lining is I have a test lab I can hide in when I want to browse me a little/.
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Not really endorsements. CR purchases everything themselves and do not accept product directly from the manufacturer.
I am frankly bewildered that advertizers might object to this behavior. I ask for a carrot, you give me a potato chip and a carrot and object when I turn my nose up at the potato chip. If I had wanted a potato chip, I would have ASKED for one. If advertizers want to suceed on the internet, they need to learn to fill needs that users have, not continue to try to create needs users did not know they had.
The matrix has you.
All suspects are guilty. Otherwise, they would not be suspect.
In racing "DNF" means Did Not Finish. Perhaps a poor choice of title?
Be thankful for your cubical. One of the top level executives at our company decided that cubicals cut down on inter-departmental communication. So... down came the cubical walls. I now work in a totally open office. EVERYONE can see what is on my monitor ALL THE TIME. Since I spend a large part of my time doing solid modeling and FEA work, I have an audience far more often than I would like. I do not work well in a fishtank. Ironically, the home office (where top-lvl-exec spends most of his time) has cubicals. Just us unwashed red-headed step children that can't. The only silver lining is I have a test lab I can hide in when I want to browse me a little /.
The viablility of radio has nothing to do with it.
Apple would be killing their iTunes revenue stream if they included radio.