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Re: Oh, great! this is just what we need...

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From: Holly Marie
Date: Oct 11, 2002 8:22AM

From: "John Foliot - bytown internet"


| Run, don't walk, away screaming:
| http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=3783

My reply posted only to the webaim forum.

I have already seen a few of these invasive ads, and I am sure many
others have also.
This is a nuissance and also makes content inaccessible to anyone
surfing a web page. I imagine it is even worse for those with any kinds
of challenge.

I am particularly annoyed by the Flash type ads that plaster themselves
after arriving from the back or sides right in the middle of content or
over the navigational areas. Some of these have no closing [x] in the
corners, others if you click anywhere on the ad, others pop up or the
click takes you somewhere else. Some are timed to disappear or do so if
you scroll the pages.

IF Yahoo is to become more agressive with its advertising elements in
our faces or way, the only reprecussion or positive light I see here is
that more and more users will turn away from using Yahoo! The once
leading search utility on the WWW will be burying itself deeper and
deeper into losing more users.

Somewhere these people need to focus on the ideas that Push type ads and
invasions only turn off users and get in the way. Maybe loss of visitors
or respect will aid that message delivery.

Even the ads over at weather.com can get irritating. Cool can happen
once but it gets tedious each time. About.com is another web site that
had some great order and information to deliver, but I am really annoyed
with the overuse of popups and windows opened for each page that is
viewed. Even Mozilla with the pop up features off does not avoid all on
their site. Sometimes the about.com pages won't load at all.

I did not read the entire article. But thanks for that piece. Maybe they
should make ads an optional request. [there's a good fantasy]

And maybe they will all destroy themselves in the process?

I made my choices years ago, not to revisit sites that were annoyingly
distruptive to content delivery.
[I love working with multimedia, and think that it is a viable
alternative for many, but abuse of it and how it is used is another
topic]


done with my rant, for now. And I had read about Yahoo! going in this
direction a few months ago. Too Bad.

There should be a budding market for those that promote services and
utilities out there and claim very little advertising and disruption.

holly



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