Video advertisments and Vertigo! [modified]
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Okay, this is my pet-peeve... Video advertising! I'm not talking about the banners that change text every 2 seconds (like the Vista API competition banner on my left). They are annoying but tolerable. I'm talking about the videos that have so much crap jumping around on them that you get nauseated trying to read an article or someones post. There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements. I know they are designed to get your attention, but webmasters and the advertisers must understand that they are probably having the opposite effect. I am at the point now where I just close the page and look for the info elswhere. So what do you do, tolerate it or quickly move on?
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Okay, this is my pet-peeve... Video advertising! I'm not talking about the banners that change text every 2 seconds (like the Vista API competition banner on my left). They are annoying but tolerable. I'm talking about the videos that have so much crap jumping around on them that you get nauseated trying to read an article or someones post. There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements. I know they are designed to get your attention, but webmasters and the advertisers must understand that they are probably having the opposite effect. I am at the point now where I just close the page and look for the info elswhere. So what do you do, tolerate it or quickly move on?
Well, if it's intolerable then you can't tolerate it. :laugh: I guess move on. I hate feeling motion sick! X|
By Ravel: and then the whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school.
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Okay, this is my pet-peeve... Video advertising! I'm not talking about the banners that change text every 2 seconds (like the Vista API competition banner on my left). They are annoying but tolerable. I'm talking about the videos that have so much crap jumping around on them that you get nauseated trying to read an article or someones post. There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements. I know they are designed to get your attention, but webmasters and the advertisers must understand that they are probably having the opposite effect. I am at the point now where I just close the page and look for the info elswhere. So what do you do, tolerate it or quickly move on?
rtalan wrote:
There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements.
Im sick of seeing the ladies dancing in front of the PC and then the camera zooms in and she turns around all surpised and it loops infinitely. X|
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School) -
Okay, this is my pet-peeve... Video advertising! I'm not talking about the banners that change text every 2 seconds (like the Vista API competition banner on my left). They are annoying but tolerable. I'm talking about the videos that have so much crap jumping around on them that you get nauseated trying to read an article or someones post. There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements. I know they are designed to get your attention, but webmasters and the advertisers must understand that they are probably having the opposite effect. I am at the point now where I just close the page and look for the info elswhere. So what do you do, tolerate it or quickly move on?
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rtalan wrote:
There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements.
Im sick of seeing the ladies dancing in front of the PC and then the camera zooms in and she turns around all surpised and it loops infinitely. X|
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)Yes! That one is not only nauseating but disturbing! :~ And ughh, there is a banner as I type this that is scrolling lines of code by so fast you can't read them and trying to makes me ill. Not that you are supposed to be able to read them but who wouldn't try? That is the distracting part and just on principle, I will never click on that ad! And who the heck is "SQL Stan!?" Watching his bald head pop in and out while I'm trying to read makes me reach for my gun (nerf, of course :-D)...
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Okay, this is my pet-peeve... Video advertising! I'm not talking about the banners that change text every 2 seconds (like the Vista API competition banner on my left). They are annoying but tolerable. I'm talking about the videos that have so much crap jumping around on them that you get nauseated trying to read an article or someones post. There is a reason we get sick when we try to read in a moving car and it is the same thing that happens with these obnoxious video advertisements. I know they are designed to get your attention, but webmasters and the advertisers must understand that they are probably having the opposite effect. I am at the point now where I just close the page and look for the info elswhere. So what do you do, tolerate it or quickly move on?
Can't you just configure your browser to just not play those ads?
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