ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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Dec 28, 2017 1:39 AM
ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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Piperr
EVERY. NEWS. WEBSITE. EVER. And its especially bad on mobile where you have 2 wait 10 hours for an ad to load so you can close it then read.
Nathanyel
I'm sure most of these a) links to sites with malware/viruses, or b) counting on really dumb people: "why is this open? Better buy stuff"
HatredandVitriol
They dont need YOUR patronage specifically. They just need enough to make a buck.
ryoshibill7
I chose to boycott any business that puts ads before content.
barnwolf
I've seen some ad's like that before. I don't remember what they were for though.
Telharmonius
AMEN! I have made this my personal mission. Ads that obstruct, or mislead or worse, redirect will be blacklisted!!
forsrsly
... looking at you @advanceautoparts ...
Davros876
Also, when you’re on a mobile site and an autoplay video or ad stops your music...
Aktavate
Additionally if your site auto plays audio the tab is immediately closed and I will never return.
notaballoon
You are not the consumer. You are the product.
codepink2303
I deliberately ignore ads in my feed, articles and pop ups, I simply refuse to look at them.
hulkmad
I almost bought a product, then I heard the owner say "expecially".
MagicSquid
If you try to force me to turn off adblocker to visit your website then guess whose website I'm not going to visit.
ILikePugandFrenchiePictures
So basically every ad on every news site ever?
ObnoxiousCommenter
.... ads?
StiabhnaD
TheAtlantic.com has ads that cover the first sentence of the paragraph below them. Salon.com has autoplaying videos! This Is The End Times!
Janusha
If your webpage starts playing LOUD MUSIC OR SOMEBODY TALKING LOUD and you cant shut it off, Im never going there ever again.
cyborgelt
I usually leave the website all together and never return, even if it had something of interest. Fuck these ads.
MotherFrickingMailMan
uBlock Origin is your friend!
YouGotThatRight
My name........
FloridaLawyer
If I hit you up, will you give me an honest critique?
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
They don't give a shit about your opinion because they know that overall those ads fucking work.
Plutothinksyourmumistoosmall
Correct. And if you interrupt a video then I'm reporting your add for being offensive too
EmporerDragon
Why they think to make an ad autoplay with sound or fill your entire screen when your cursor gets near is a good idea is beyond me.
HeroesDeserveRecognition
They don't. Those are shitty sites with a bad user experience because their business model sucks.
Sauroctonus
Ugh, remember the one with an emoticon shouting "HELLOOOO!?"?
whitewingdevil
Also if you hide your content if I have an adblocker installed it GUARANTEES I do not want to view your ads and will never return.
HeroesDeserveRecognition
That's exactly what they want. If you're blocking ads, you have no worth to any website.
fitlex
I'm sure that's fine by them since you're only costing them money instead of generating it
ElegantKitty
It's not really hard to make a website or pay someone, yet there's so many shite websites. Of course older folk are like "Well they don't-
ElegantKitty
need a website." or some shit. I just wanted to see if Lees Liquor had a wine that my Granny liked. GR. ><
softestpants
Same with face books stupid mid-video ads. They make me want to burn stuff. And I shut off the whole video.
ryoshibill7
They've started making the video window taller so you can not decline the ad anymore because it stops the video (when you're on your phone)
thereoncewasamanfromnantucket
I’ve never made it past one
TharrickLawson
FB Purity and ublock origin dealt with that bullshit :)
Sauroctonus
FB Purity is the best!
dazedNconfuzed
If the first thing a person does upon seeing your ad is try to make it go away, you're doing it wrong.
supersomatic
Yes, you know better than the multi billion dollar advertisement industry. haha they are so silly in their mansions!
MatixNJ
It also makes me avoid the site
notaballoon
We are not the consumer, we are the product
Sakabashira
If you don't make sure the ads you use don't slow the shit out of the website... Expect people to block them all.
o11c
Wrong. The fact that the are reminded "Acme Widgets Company exists" is already a success. Clicks don't matter.
welcometofuckall
Is there a law stating government websites must be an illogical mess?
Cookie39
Costs money to make Good websites, government don't want to waste their money on making the tax payers lives easy. They need it all for 1/2
Cookie39
their greedy arse selves.
welcometofuckall
The need that money to renovate the offices every 2-3 years. If they're comfortable they'll be able to work better
RockESV
They’ll be ABLE to, but they still won’t.
Aslatra
Yeah. And then there's imgur, who politely asks me to turn off my blocker but when I do, my malware protection warns me of malicious ads...
B99Reactions
Theres ads on imgur
WeMustHaveSciencyThings
That was his point
ionizdgrunt
I was browsing imgur on my phone. it froze. Then all of a sudden an app opened on my phone I never installed. Bye bye imgur mobile.
GoldFrieza
Been using Imgur mobile for about a year, every day. Never once happened to me. Did the problems go away when you uninstalled?
TheVampireDante
Lot of ad companies do rotations, sites don't know there's a problem with some ads unless they get told about it to proceed with removal.
iwannapikachuwhileyoushower
And Imgur had been told multiple times about them. Clearly they don't give a fuck about your wellbeing.
HeroesDeserveRecognition
Sigh. It's so much more complicated than that. On the order of billions of ads per second. They don't get tracked down as easily as you thin
Aslatra
I mean, how many times is a user required to personally report ads before they just say screw it?
TheVampireDante
If you factor in location and targeted ads to rotations, there tends to be a very low percentage of people that will see the problem ad 1/2
TheVampireDante
compared to the overall userbase. If only 20-30 people see it out of thousands, and only a % report it, then the problem ad remains longer.
Aslatra
The problem with that line of thinking is that when working through a company, even with the rotation of ads, any number of reports shows 1/