Someone else started a topic a little ways down about the high number of ads affecting their computer's performance, so I thought I'd chime in with my perception on all the ads.
Some ads are fine. The little ones that just sit along the top or side of a page are fine. They're there, just doing their thing. They don't get in my way, and I don't have to pay them any attention if I'm not interested in the product.
Then, there are the other banner ads. The ones that roll out and cover the page if you brush one, single little pixel of them. These are quite annoying, but if you roll over them, then it's your own fault.
Then we have the banner ads that unroll and cover the page automatically. This is unwarranted, and just plain annoying. I understand that companies have to do all that they can to push a product in this ADD riddled, instant-gratification day and age, but this is a little much. Forcing us to acknowledge your ad and watch your crappy, B-grade video until we find whichever corner you hid the nigh-microscopic X so we can get on with what we wanted to do is a bit of a dick move.
Then there are the video ads. These aren't so bad if you just watch one or two videos. I, on the other hand, like to mute my TV and run a mini Zero Punctuation marathon while I'm level grinding. This means that every 3 minutes or so, I have to watch your ad. I can safely say, for me at least, your ad is having the opposite effect. Yelling at me every 3 minutes about how awesome people who eat Slim-Jim's are and how awesome I'll be if I eat them too has pretty much guaranteed that I will not touch a Slim-Jim for the next decade. And now it's making me damn glad that I don't give $15 a month to WoW anymore, and has ruined any slight urge I had to pick it up again (this is made slightly worse knowing that nearly everyone who is going to buy Cataclysm planned on buying it since the day it was announced. This is no underground company getting an indie game out in the world, it's the biggest f'ng game on the planet!)
I understand the point of ads, on both sides. The companies get their product out there, and the site makes money which, in turn, it uses so that it can be free for us to use. I appreciate that, sincerely. This is a great site, a great community, and I would hate to see it become a pay-site. But being barraged by the same ad every couple of seconds has basically had the opposite effect on me, and has made me swear never to give these pushy, aggravating people any more of my money than I already have.
Anyone else feel the same?
Some ads are fine. The little ones that just sit along the top or side of a page are fine. They're there, just doing their thing. They don't get in my way, and I don't have to pay them any attention if I'm not interested in the product.
Then, there are the other banner ads. The ones that roll out and cover the page if you brush one, single little pixel of them. These are quite annoying, but if you roll over them, then it's your own fault.
Then we have the banner ads that unroll and cover the page automatically. This is unwarranted, and just plain annoying. I understand that companies have to do all that they can to push a product in this ADD riddled, instant-gratification day and age, but this is a little much. Forcing us to acknowledge your ad and watch your crappy, B-grade video until we find whichever corner you hid the nigh-microscopic X so we can get on with what we wanted to do is a bit of a dick move.
Then there are the video ads. These aren't so bad if you just watch one or two videos. I, on the other hand, like to mute my TV and run a mini Zero Punctuation marathon while I'm level grinding. This means that every 3 minutes or so, I have to watch your ad. I can safely say, for me at least, your ad is having the opposite effect. Yelling at me every 3 minutes about how awesome people who eat Slim-Jim's are and how awesome I'll be if I eat them too has pretty much guaranteed that I will not touch a Slim-Jim for the next decade. And now it's making me damn glad that I don't give $15 a month to WoW anymore, and has ruined any slight urge I had to pick it up again (this is made slightly worse knowing that nearly everyone who is going to buy Cataclysm planned on buying it since the day it was announced. This is no underground company getting an indie game out in the world, it's the biggest f'ng game on the planet!)
I understand the point of ads, on both sides. The companies get their product out there, and the site makes money which, in turn, it uses so that it can be free for us to use. I appreciate that, sincerely. This is a great site, a great community, and I would hate to see it become a pay-site. But being barraged by the same ad every couple of seconds has basically had the opposite effect on me, and has made me swear never to give these pushy, aggravating people any more of my money than I already have.
Anyone else feel the same?
