Rollover ads can bite my ass

BuzzLY

Have any of you experienced these? You go to a site like, say, ESPN, to read some articles (not necessarily that site, of course). As you're looking through the page, an ad suddenly pops up over the page... "huh? where'd that come from?" There's a close link on it, so you click it. Then, you move your mouse down to the article you were just reading (and so rudely interrupted from), and as your mouse floats over a small banner ad, that blasted ad pops up again!!!!!

I don't know about you, but I find these VERY annoying -- even more than popup/popunders. At least if those pop up, you close them and they are gone for good (unless you refresh the page -- don't get me started down THAT road).

Advertising in general has gotten WAY out of hand. You can't watch a damned movie nowadays without having some Pepsi logo jump out at you, taking you away from the plot of the movie for just a moment. Times like that give me the urge to buy a Coke®. (Shrek's little Starbucks and Big Boy "nods" sure made me laugh, though 🙂)

Do you watch NASCAR? Um... neither do I, but have you seen the in-car cameras? There are stickers all OVER the place. Ballparks are being renamed for millions of dollars (funny story... my girlfriend thought our baseball stadium here in Cincinnati, the Great American Ballpark, was named out of patriotism. Nope. It's named for Great American Insurance company).

So, who's to blame for all of this? WE ARE. Advertisers use methods that work to make them money, so SOMEONE is clicking on these ads. Someone is getting up in the middle of the movie to go buy a Pepsi. Shame on you! Stop clicking! Stop giving in to these brute force tactics!!!

Ok, I'm done with my rant. No, I'm not feeling better, I just have to go now. I'm meeting with my lawyer to go over my paperwork. I'm changing my name to Coca Cola Glass. I'm not proud, but I'm getting a LOT of money for it.

Ciao! And remember, it's the Real Thing®!

LordShryku

Hrrmmm....

A mighty fine point Buzz. I shall ponder it, while doing the dew, and playing a damn good game

dalecosp

Yeah, but with them being so popular, it'd be a big bite, and then you'd look funny in the Speedo (at least from the rear).

Not that I care about that in the least, though.

I've not yet experienced what you describe; so either I'm not surfing the hip sites, or not using a browser (or OS?) that allows that kinda crap <?>

If it keeps getting worse, though, maybe I can make more $$ taking the adware off of retired people's computers 😉

[edit]LordS, original artwork?

Merve

Use a browser with a popup blocker, Buzz.

Wait a second, that was an ad too! 😃

jebster

Originally posted by Merve
Use a browser with a popup blocker, Buzz.

Wait a second, that was an ad too! 😃

That would block pop-ups but not what he is referring to. He's talking about those dumbass flash ads that get bigger and cover your screen when you mouse over them unintentionally, atleast I think that is what he is talking about. If so, I have experienced them too, and they just make me hate flash more and more.

Speaking of ads, I use the Google Toolbar(Oops there is another ad) to block pop-ups(3760 now) and now somehow sites are finding ways around it!! It's starting to fail me! 🙁

Think I am going to disable javascript and flash from now on... :mad:

BuzzLY

Yeah, I get popups, too. Yes, I have popup blockers, and the Google Search bar. It does block some popups, but somehow popups keep coming. I think there is some rogue program running that pops up those ads -- how funny is it that when I visit monster.com, a popup appears advertising monster.com? It would be funny as hell if it didn't burn my ass.

vaaaska

I haven't had a popup in months. I see probably only 20% of ads on webpages. Simply using a different browser would help - everything except M$ is good.

Here in Belgium on the tele we have these brilliant commercials. Whilst you are watching a movie all the sudden the screen will screech and crack and then a candy bar will break through the glass - totally realistic and shocking. What is so unique about this really is that the ad is actually composited over the movie so you still see the movie while the ad plays. Then, it goes to a set of commercials from there.

"This was a Pizza Hut, now it's call covered with daisies" - David Byrne

Elizabeth

Originally posted by BuzzLY
WE ARE. Advertisers use methods that work to make them money, so SOMEONE is clicking on these ads. Someone is getting up in the middle of the movie to go buy a Pepsi. Shame on you! Stop clicking! Stop giving in to these brute force tactics!!!

I have a different opinion... I think it's because people DON'T click on the normal banner ads and other less obtrusive forms of advertising. And it's because we DO have pop-up blockers and such. Advertisers are trying to get our attention any way they can. So if the less obtrusive methods aren't working, then they're just going to get in our face even more. If someone doesn't respond to a whisper, then you try talking a little louder. And if they still don't respond, you escalate your speaking a little more, and so on and so forth...and before you know it, everyone's "shouting" at you for your attention.

Don't get me wrong, I have little tolerance for advertising in a sports setting- especially with the naming of the fields, arenas, and events (..still waiting for the "Tampax Superbowl") but the Internet is a breeding ground for advertising- it's the only place where the little guys are literally on an even playing ground with the big guys. And the more innovative browsers become to "filter" out bad info from good- the more innovative advertisers will get to break past those filters.

IMHO, mind you. 🙂

goldbug

/me puts on his foil hat and starts browsing the 'net using Lynx.

dalecosp

Originally posted by goldbug
/me puts on his foil hat and starts browsing the 'net using Lynx.

Tee hee! Yup!!

$/usr/local/bin/lynx http://www.playboy.com

Just plain loads a h*lluva lot faster and no ads, either! 😃 😃

In all seriousness, most of the daft garbage people have to put up with on MS/IE just hasn't happened over here yet. Maybe I need to test and see if flash is actually working :eek:

[edit]%&#&^!@! it! Take out a vowel to make it a tad more presentable and then put in a link to a porn site! Where's that freakin' checkbox.....

Mordecai

I use an ad-blocking proxy (The Proxomitron, no longer updated, unfortunately). It works extremely well. I recommend you check it out.
You can even write your own regexp (PCRE) to filter certain things.

Merve

I forgot to tell you that I use Mozilla with the Adblock extension.

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Note to self: Don't make stupid spelling mistakes in posts ridiculing stupidity
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piersk

Originally posted by bubblenut
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oh if only 🙂

Merve

Dumb questions. Yes there is such a thing as one. Don't listen to the adage.

BuzzLY

No, no, the adage is correct:

"There is no such thing as a stupid question. Only stupid people that ask them."