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Norris2k on 19 May 2014
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VanceIX said:
JazzB1987 said:
think-man said:

Btw pachter is right.


How?  If they make ads that are in the background that are okay everyone would be fine with ads. But if you make ads that actually prevent one from doing what one wanted to do  then how are those ads good? They are an obstacle.


Also when its the 10th time that e.g a COD Video is preventing me from watching something Halo related  I will start to HATE COD for that stupid commercial.

If its a cool designed  static AD without sound and without flashing animation etc.  It would be completely cool.
  The web worked like that a long time ago  and one day people were like "hey site if you dont use our annoying ad we wont give you more money you will get the bare minimum" and some dumb sites said "okay lets do it" and it got worse and worse.

If everyone would have agreed to NOT have this shit then every site would get the same amount of money for static "cool" ads than they now get for annoying ones.


Also if ads would be "reasonable" then noone would need to use adblock and the ad-revenue would automatically increase.  Its the same as  annoying shitty  anti-pirate measurements  that result in MORE pirates.

Thank you. Ads should be inconspicuous, something that is passive in nature, that you just notice and are like "oh, that's kinda cool".

Ads that are straight up in your face, refusing to let you access a video or website until you click on them or let a timer run out are complete BS and far too prevalent, and make me hate the product more than make me interested.

Patcher comes down as a condenscending moron getting too worked up over crappy practices that shouldn't exist. 

I started using adblock a long time ago for my favorite news site. Ads were so massive, intrusive, and slow I could not even use the site anymore on my old computer. Even now on my modern laptop I can't have smooth scrolling on the site without adblocks. It even popups randomly so you click by inadvertance on ads you don't have interest on, you have to click somewhere to close it.

I think television and internet are quite different. First, on television, when you switch to an other channel you are not welcomed everytime by an ad. Can you imagine that ? Every channel you switch to immediately displaying an ad ? Because that's what happen a lot on the internet, every new site you open is punished by an ad. I think that's what make internet ads so horrible.

Secondly, ads on television, are passive and predictable, they come at a given interval for a limited period of time, you can chose to go to another channel with 1 button click. You can't switch so easily or predict anything on the internet. The popup can be there until you click something, or you have to wait some time, it's not long enough for you to to something else.

Last, I've known a internet with almost no ads. A few sites had just a tiny picture on top of the page, you could click on or not. Simple and efficient. I can't forget that ;)

Bonus: as someone said, you prevent lots of problems like malware from blocking ads. My parents computer was home for hundreds of viruses. I fixed it, switched them to firefox and adblocks and it really solved the problem.