Stupid Online Advertising, Part 12,459 | Bayosphere
Stupid Online Advertising, Part 12,459 | Bayosphere
A local fitness company is running an advertisement on the Chronicle’s site. It covers the top of the article, and there’s a little “X” in the corner that supposedly lets you remove the ad.
But after repeatedly clicking it and then having the ad reappear, I want to urge the Chronicle to try something else. I have no problem with online advertising. But this is beyond annoying.
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Been there and done that and didn’t go back.
These news outlets need to learn that the internet is a big place with easy access. Not like the local newspaper which used to be the only game in town. When I run across one of these sites I make a mental note to not go back for a while. Most of the worst offenders learn in a short while or seem to as the offending popunder/over/in the middle of is usually gone by the time I forget about it and go back. Sometimes not but as I said the internet is a big place and most news isn’t just at one place any more.
Learn, earn, or burn…
Themocracy
Oh, yes, the advertisement that covers the article itself. Of course, the reason we go to the website in the first place is to read the ads, not the article that we searched up on the web! Asshats! I have a mental list of sites that if they come up as a hit on Google or wherever, I don’t even bother to click. What’s the point, if you can’t read the frigging article because the ad floats over the thing everywhere you go? And I guarantee, if I remember who the advertiser is, I ain’t buying ANYTHING from them ever again unless I have NO choice, and if I DO buy anything, I let them know that I am buying under protest and only until I have another choice. And when they blink (you can hear it over the phone) and ask why, I tell them “Because you have the most annoying ads in the history of advertising. And that, my friend, is both an amazing feat, and worthy of rewarding by moving my business elsewhere, just as soon as I can!” When they tell me that they have no control over the advertising I tell them “Fine! Tell someone who does that they are PISSING PEOPLE OFF!” Probably does no good, but I believe in telling the little people; every now and then, it gets back to the big people. And every once in a great while, the big people listen.