On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 16:36 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Matijn Woudt > > > [mailto:tijnema@xxxxxxxxx] > > > > > > You're missing the most important aspect of social networks.. > > > Advertising. > > > > Please tell me that is said sarcastically. Advertising is the cancer > > of the internet. There was a time when there weren't ad banners, > > interstitials, pop-ups, pop-unders, spam, and all the other bullshit > > you have to sift through on a daily basis. > > I might add to this that one of the reasons I switched to using Google > for internet searches many years ago was precisely this. All the other > search portals at the time blasted you with ads. Google's search page > was just a blank and the name Google, much as it is now. (Though I think > Google has now become its own kind of evil.) > > And now I'm seeing more and more pop-up ads on websites all the time. > I'm trying to read content and every little while I have to banish some > pop-up or another. Grrr. > > Here's another massive evil: Web pages that take forever to load. Why? > Because they have ads and other content being served up from other > sites. It takes forever for the page to fully paint because of > congestion at *other* sites which are supposed to be serving up > content/ads to the page I'm visiting. Yeah, that's not annoying or > anything. In fact, I've gone so far as to force my computer/browser to > believe most common providers of ad content are localhost, making > most requests for ad content yield 404 errors. > > I bought TiVo partially so I could skip ads. I've revelled in it every > day since. I can watch an hour-long program in 47 minutes. (Though this > is a sad commentary on television and cable content providers.) > > Yes, ads are Evil(tm). > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com > One of the most annoying types of ads I see these days is the full page image link behind everything else on the page (so it looks like a clickable background); and you click on a part of the window to give it focus, and BAM, a new tab opens up for some crappy ad. Not only do I have to wait for a huge image to load, but I also have to deal with some rubbish site in a new tab :-/ -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
