Autoplay ads are the worst of the bunch. I miss the early days of the web with amateur sites detailing the history of squash or similar esoterica. However, I almost whipped something at the TV screen tonight due to the commercials, political and otherwise. The more ads I see for something, the less likely I will ever purchase it or use its services, HondaWeatherTechLite, etc.
I don’t find radio ads as intrusive, and don’t mind the gas station pump screens at all. But yes, public media and SiriusXM are about the only services I use (besides local TV news) willingly.
Apparently, it IS, and there have been campaigns to have it legislated, or so I’ve heard. (I’m too lazy to look it up at the moment.)
The only ads I really, REALLY hate are perfume samples in magazines. Ugh.
It’s called the CALM Act and it’s been in place for a couple of years now. No idea on the effect, though.
Advertising, and marketing, are ALWAYS OBTRUSIVE to me. I guess I’m easily offended and a hard sell at the same time. :eek: :smack:
My current most unfavorite is a huge bigbox pet equipment chain, which I USED to patronize for the coupons. Their ads show on dog forums, and make the WHOLE page unreadable until you click the x. This happens everytime you change topics. Imagine the banner above this covering the whole page!
Adblock is looking better and better. I don’t listen to any radio with ads, only see movies in one small theater in town when they do simulcast Metropolitan operas, and don’t watch television except on Wednesdays when I pick Himself up at the Husband Day Care (aka pub), and there the sound is muted and closed captioning even for ads is pretty entertaining.
Intentionally deceptive mailings.
The other day my wife handed me a piece of junk mail that appeared to be government letterhead and had stuff about the Veterans Administration all over it. They used the logo and the letter included a case number and other official sounding things. It was actually mortgage refinance spam.
I looked at the ant-sized print at the bottom and it said that they were not affiliated with the VA nor the US government and so on and so forth.
This is unethical. No matter how they put it, they are trying to fool people. The teeny tiny disclaimer should not give them that right.
That is enough for immediate dismissal of the page. I close the tab after the first syllable.
I go out of my way to watch well produced advertisements. My gf is in advertising and it is cool to hear her critique and give inside info on ads.
It’s been really sad to see what newspapers’ sites have become. *The Denver Post’s *is one of the least usable I’ve seen; it’s crammed with in-your-face advertising, and it’s ridiculously slow: I’ve got a connection that averages about 37Mbps, and whenever I try to load the Post’s website, everything slows to a crawl.
The *Post *gave away its content for much, much too long – I think they finally adopted a plan in which viewers can read a limited number of articles per month, but that was just in the last year. I never understood that business model after the Internet boomed: charge print readers (increasingly) out the wazoo, but give everything away for free online (and that was before their website became overrun with obnoxious advertising and was actually usable).
You’ll notice I’m not linking to the *Post’s *website; I wouldn’t want to crash the Internet.
I can block them out until they START SHOUTING AT ME FROM THE TV WHICH I’VE TURNED UP TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION BEING MUTTERED BY THE CHARACTERS.
There should be a law against that.
It’s not working…
This made me literally LOL. AND I plan to share it with a friend of mine who’ll also find it amusing.
Me too. I’m almost done reading books as well as the ads for the book on the back are annoying.