# Weather.com, chunk the intrusive ads, please **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 29, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921 "2001-11-29T14:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921/1 "2001-11-29T14:44:39Z")
I don’t have a problem with ads on the Net. Honestly, I don’t. But when a fairly respectable site, such as [weather.com](http://weather.com), makes it well-nigh impossible to find the single piece of information people want from their site (namely, the weather forecast), I have to call foul. There’s an ad on the front page of the [weather.com](http://weather.com) site for a Volkswagen van. As a part of this ad’s program, the van drives on the Web page, obscuring text and blocking access to the [weather.com](http://weather.com) site until the van drives off the page. It’s about ten seconds, which is not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things. But it’s time that I have to wait to access the information for which I went to that site. Once the freakin’ van is gone, I type in the name of the city for which I want the weather forecast. Before taking me to that page, a pop-up ad for Casino on the Net fills my screen. We have a pretty liberal Web policy at work, and my boss doesn’t care if I’m checking the weather. He might have something to say, though, were he to walk in and see a big casino ad on my screen. Does Casino on the Net really think their target demographic is [weather.com](http://weather.com) users? I expect intrusive ads and pop-up ads on stuff like porn sites and other low-rent Web sites. But [weather.com](http://weather.com)? Give me a break. ---
**Author:** ![Moon-Watcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Moon-Watcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moon-Watcher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921/2 "2001-11-29T15:13:41Z")
It would also be nice if they could forecast. “Scattered thunderstorms” or “partly cloudy” for 10 days in a row isn’t a forecast. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921/3 "2001-11-29T16:15:34Z")
I like Weather Underground: [http://www.wunderground.com](http://www.wunderground.com). For a mere $5 a year, you get your weather info with no ads. I subscribed because they no longer serve their animated maps for free, but I’ve found it soooo refreshing to read a website that isn’t constantly exhorting me to punch the monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921/4 "2001-11-29T21:52:20Z")
**Sauron** , are you on IE? I tried [http://www.weather.com](http://www.weather.com) with Netscape and saw neither VW nor pop-up. **Triton** , give [AccuWeather](http://www.accuweather.com) a try instead; they display the National Weather Service forecast in addition to their own. Accuweather has a pop-up with IE but not Netscape. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-chunk-the-intrusive-ads-please/95921/5 "2001-11-29T22:04:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \ ***Sauron** , are you on IE? I tried [http://www.weather.com](http://www.weather.com) with Netscape and saw neither VW nor pop-up. Yup, IE 5. I think the Volkswagen ad is one of several that rotates in that spot on the right side of the page. I suppose I ought to rant at VW, as well, for designing an ad that makes it impossible to use the Web page you’re visiting for a short space of time.