I’m tired. I’m bored. I’m surfing. I get a pop-up ad for a pop-up killing software program.
The pop-up does this shamelessly. It is a plug. It makes no effort to even comment on the two-faced silliness of using pop-ups to advertise their pop-up killing software. Can they not see the hypocrisy?
It reminds me of the old gag where the poor victim gets a brick thrown through his front window with a note attached advertising a store selling window panes.
I’m too tired to get really worked up about it, though. I can’t even remember the name of the website for the aforementioned advertiser. I wasn’t even able to work in some clever swearing like ‘asshat’. This is probably the worst pit rant ever.
I don’t know. I think it’s quite clever, really. Point out what you hate to remind you to do something about it. Presumably their product would kill their own pop-ups too.
The people who already have your product aren’t annoyed by your ads, and the people who need your product are, in one step, reminded that they need it and shown where to get it.