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Not the game thing whereby houses suddenly appear and previously invisible mountains hove into sight.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
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Goatboy wrote:
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing,
> you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle
> and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it,
> advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
So... you get the product for half the normal price... but it comes with a large cola ad perminantly stuck on the side?
Whatever happened to those Internet microwave ovens?
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing,
> you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle
> and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it,
> advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
So... you get the product for half the normal price... but it comes with a large cola ad perminantly stuck on the side?
Whatever happened to those Internet microwave ovens?
Goatboy wrote:
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
It's ok, we're getting used to it now! :-)
Thing is, if as you say people leave the site because of the pop ups, then surely it's doing more harm than good and the web-master will be sensible enough to stop it.
I'm not sure how these things work but I'd imagine that if you get, say, over 1000hits a day you get paid £5 per ad (or something). So if the ads drop the number of users to 750 hits per day, then surely the web-site would get less money.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
It's ok, we're getting used to it now! :-)
Thing is, if as you say people leave the site because of the pop ups, then surely it's doing more harm than good and the web-master will be sensible enough to stop it.
I'm not sure how these things work but I'd imagine that if you get, say, over 1000hits a day you get paid £5 per ad (or something). So if the ads drop the number of users to 750 hits per day, then surely the web-site would get less money.
Not the game thing whereby houses suddenly appear and previously invisible mountains hove into sight.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
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