Commercials on web pages and search engines makes me loathe the internet.
If ads weren’t so freakin annoying people wouldn’t need adblocker
Forbes and The Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post(who cares) are the worst. You can’t open them without the page crashing because of all the ads.
I like to know what advertisers are dumb enough to pay to advertize on websites nobody can open without an adblocker?
On the flip side, Sky and Telescope is probably the only site to do ads right, just a non-intrusive, non-animated banner up top or on the right side. If other sites just did that, nobody would have had the need to come up with Adblockers
hahahhaha! Block them all! I didn't sign no implicit contract!
I also never go to news type sites where you have to sign in and give up email just to read some story. It’s their choice to do that, but there are probably 800,000++ news sites to chose from. There was a news site in Oregon that did that, because their chat following the news stories got political and way too real for them, so they changed their whole format and forced those who wanted to read stories to sign in, give up email, and they decided everyone must use their real name, no more anonymity in the comments. What a hoot. That place died out quick.
These aren’t innocent ads. Most target stupid users that click on anything. Get a few that tell my flash player is out of date and I need to download something. Others in a female voice tell me my Windows (doesn’t mention the version) is infected and doesn’t work right. Lol...Just put the ads on the webpage without popups.
I do not understand why THEY don’t get it:
WE. DO. NOT. LIKE. INTERNET. ADS.
We don’t click on ‘em.
We think they are annoying.
They do NOT want to make us buy the product or service they sell.
We don’t want to see them...AT ALL.
Have I made myself clear?
Or perhaps not.
This may come as an incredible revelation for the greedy, but the worst offenders are sites (all over the place) listing the "20 top (name a topic) that you can't believe!
I don't think anybody at any time goes beyond "2"
Are those folks brain dead? or just stoopid?
Java scripts and Flash are crimes against humanity.
Post your ads inline with the text like in print, and more people will see them, and not being annoyed by them, compared to the ones who hijack your browser and waste bandwidth, more people will react positively to your marketing message.
Who on earth clicks on all that click bait?! When I pull up an article to read, all I want to do is read the article, not click on anyone of a dozen ads that slow down the page loading up. I have never intentionally clicked on an advertiser’s site, and I never will. It just adds cookies to my computer and encourages advertisers.
didn’t google purchase one of the adblockers to now provide targeted ads instead of no ads?
I used to read the Washington Times but I have not done so for a couple of years now. The reason is the pop up ads and all the rest of the malware on that site. Even with ad blocker there is a level of malevolent spam that makes it absolutely unusable.
Ping for later read
I’ve noticed some sites now won’t let you read content unless you disable adblockers.
If the ads weren’t so obnoxious I wouldn’t be so set on blocking them. They overplayed their hand, what do they expect.
I used to just block scripts, and allow static ads, but after the majors started serving up ads loaded with ransomware, I got more aggressive in my blocking.
I understand the need for ads, but until the big companies start behaving ethically, I’m not going to put myself at risk.
Does anyone anywhere actually buy anything from an unsolicited online ad? I never have.
Since I never looked at Amazon I guess they leave me alone. Mrs. JimRed’s another story...