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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 07/16/2008 : 16:09:30
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Alright, so I'm sure I'm not the first person to feel this way, but I absolutely loathe the internet ads that feature some digital image of a person (or alien!) dancing some hip-hop dance for insurance or mortgage companies.
Sorry. Just checking the weather for some upcoming and I can't stand the fracking ad in the upper-right corner.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 16:46:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Sorry. Just checking the weather for some upcoming and I can't stand the fracking ad in the upper-right corner.
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Yeah, but you looked at it, right? That's all the little annoying dancer is supposed to accomplish. Movement draws the eye. That's why others flash or even jiggle. You can condition yourself not to glance at them, but it takes a little willpower (or a good ad blocker).
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 07/16/2008 16:48:22 |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 19:13:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Sorry. Just checking the weather for some upcoming and I can't stand the fracking ad in the upper-right corner.
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Yeah, but you looked at it, right? That's all the little annoying dancer is supposed to accomplish. Movement draws the eye. That's why others flash or even jiggle. You can condition yourself not to glance at them, but it takes a little willpower (or a good ad blocker). |
I looked at it, but I didn't think "oh, I need to refinance my home mortgage loan, and this dancing graphic is just the thing I need to convince me to make such a big decision while checking what tomorrow's high is on the Weather Channel's website."
I guess the big question is if someone went to one of these companies because of the stupid dancing graphics, rather than if they just had big letters that said "Refinance your Mortgage".
And then there's the ethical part, since if someone actually publicly admitted that the dancing person really did sell them on a company, I'd feel compelled to run them over two or three times. For like a week straight.
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 19:46:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Sorry. Just checking the weather for some upcoming and I can't stand the fracking ad in the upper-right corner.
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Yeah, but you looked at it, right? That's all the little annoying dancer is supposed to accomplish. Movement draws the eye. That's why others flash or even jiggle. You can condition yourself not to glance at them, but it takes a little willpower (or a good ad blocker).
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I'm with Cune they annoy the bejesus out of me. I find any movement on the screen distracting causing me to loose focus on what I'm reading. Maybe I have ADD. Even the animated or video avatars I either have to cover up or scroll them out of view. I spend far greater time reading things that don't have movement like books and magazines. I don't have the will power and don't suspect that I will ever try to develop it. I'll just keep on scrolling the annoying ads and avs out of view. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 07/17/2008 : 06:07:07 [Permalink]
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/17/2008 : 08:22:22 [Permalink]
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The ones that piss me off are the ones that expand when you mouse over them. Total bullshit.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 10:02:05 [Permalink]
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I hate the one's that defeat my popup blocker and you must click on to in order to get it off the page.
But in theory anyhow, I don't mind the advertising itself. A lot of work goes into some sites and blogs. A little help in paying for the server, or even the time it takes to manage a blog or whatever is a fair exchange.
We do it here, only ours is very subtle. Links to books is an example of that. But we don't recommend books in our summary for the revenue. We do take advantage of whatever revenue is available to us for doing it however.
Lately, on Skepticality, there have been ads for products right in the podcast. At first I was slightly annoyed, but when I thought about the time and care it takes to put one of those podcasts together, I can understand why they are doing it. It's not as though the donate button gets pushed all that often. It would be nice if we could be completely self sufficient, but stuff costs us. And it costs them a whole lot more. My guess is that like us, the money generated by those ads don't fully pay the costs of bringing these sites to you.
But yeah, the ads don't have to be obnoxious.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 10:39:41 [Permalink]
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The only ones I truly hate are the ones that you can't ignore. For instance, often on IMDB a huge splash graphic pops up and basically covers your screen. The really annoying thing is that it "floats" above the actual page, and will follow you even if you scroll up or down. The only way to close it is to find the little X somewhere on the graphic, which can be tough to locate. And of course if you mis-click the X, then it opens a new window and loads the ad on a full page. Obnoxious doesn't begin to describe this "in your face" form of advertisement.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 07/17/2008 20:38:58 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 11:09:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
The only ones I truly hate are the ones that you can't ignore. For instance, often on IMDB a huge splash graphic pops up and covers basically your screen. The really annoying thing is that it "floats" above the actually page, and will follow you even if you scroll up or down. The only way to close it is to find the little X somewhere on the graphic, which can be tough to locate. And of course if you mis-click the X, then it opens a new window and loads the ad on a full page. Obnoxious doesn't begin to describe this "in your face" form of advertisement.
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Yeah, that's the one I was talking about.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 03:59:05 [Permalink]
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This one really bugs me:
It's always in the corner of the eye and takes away from the article I'm reading. The popup-blocker pretty much takes care of most of the rest of it; the only thing on my ragged computer that actually works reliably.
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chaloobi
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 05:37:57 [Permalink]
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That one made me duck.  |
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Hate: little dancing graphics
