Stop Blocking me!
These Best Buy Ads that are dominating the screen on LJ are really pissing me off. Ads that take over your screen are the most annoying for me; and I can't say how effective they are. Well, wait they are effective in getting me to remember most of them, like I remember being really peeved at The Dead Weather for a while because every time I went on the Daily Swarm, their faces would pop up and I'd have to press the X before I could read the rest of the article.
The same thing with Best Buy: these ads aren't making me want to shop at Best Buy any more than I already do; and if this were another company (like radio shack or circuit city), it still wouldn't make me want to shop there anymore.
This isn't an attack on all internet advertising, because I understand that someone has to pay for it and I like being able to be on the web; but I don't believe that obstructive as possible is always good. I like Google's ads the best: a subtle link that is usually related to what I'm currently reading/searching. I've clicked on some google links from my e-mail before.
I don't mind suggestions. If I'm looking up a musician, I kind of like those 'If You Buy This, You may Like That' links. I check them out rather often on Amazon.
Maybe the aim is to bother me enough to get me to purchase a paid account. It's almost working, except I can barely afford a month now of paid time and if I had the bliss of no ads on LJ for a month and then went back, well, it may end up being the winter of my discontent.
The same thing with Best Buy: these ads aren't making me want to shop at Best Buy any more than I already do; and if this were another company (like radio shack or circuit city), it still wouldn't make me want to shop there anymore.
This isn't an attack on all internet advertising, because I understand that someone has to pay for it and I like being able to be on the web; but I don't believe that obstructive as possible is always good. I like Google's ads the best: a subtle link that is usually related to what I'm currently reading/searching. I've clicked on some google links from my e-mail before.
I don't mind suggestions. If I'm looking up a musician, I kind of like those 'If You Buy This, You may Like That' links. I check them out rather often on Amazon.
Maybe the aim is to bother me enough to get me to purchase a paid account. It's almost working, except I can barely afford a month now of paid time and if I had the bliss of no ads on LJ for a month and then went back, well, it may end up being the winter of my discontent.