Do the idiots that devise these nuisance ads really think that their victims are going to be inclined to buy their products or services? Furthermore, I have no patience for websites that allow these ads.
I think it is more nefarious and irritating, in that they completely don’t intend for you to buy the product due to this insertion of pop ups, ads, and other junk.
What they want to do (in my opinion) is merely make you see the name. I think they subscribe to some weird variant of “There is no such thing as bad publicity”.
That is what I think. And what makes it really irritating is that it DOESN’T work that way, at least for me. When I see something like “Joe’s Brazilian Coffee” pop up a few times while I am trying to read something, I get it into my head (and I remember it) the thought “I’ll be DAMNED if I will ever spend a penny on anything having to do with “Joe’s Brazilian Coffee”.”
Perhaps not everyone is like that, but I am.
I admit to being susceptible to advertising, because I have seen advertising that I like and makes me remember the product, but this annoying stuff reaches me in the most negative of ways.
I fully recognize that many websites need ads...someone has to pay for them. But the kinetic ones that make you have to walk around them bring to the surface in me the same feeling I get when I am walking down the street, enjoying the day, and some sidewalk performer or panhandler actively gets in your way to either engage you or get money from you.
They invade your space, and you can’t ignore them, which is the same thing those damned kinetic ads do.
Yes.
Did you know scammers who ask you to 'send money to help them get out of the country - you'll be paid back with mucho dinero' make their initial pleas obvious BECAUSE they don't want to waste their time on people who will catch on to the scam.
So if you look at one of those letters and ask yourself 'who would be stupid enough to fall for that' you've been weeded out by the scammers as a 'waste of time'. The people who 'devise these nuisance ads' are not thinking they're going to get you windsorknot as a customer... they're going for easier pickings.