Comments on: Bad News for Dot Com Moguls: Ad Blocking http://www.cyprich.com/2007/09/12/bad-news-for-dot-com-moguls-ad-blocking/ Occasionally Relevant Insights from a Software Builder Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Johan Cyprich http://www.cyprich.com/2007/09/12/bad-news-for-dot-com-moguls-ad-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-8108 Johan Cyprich Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:48:44 +0000 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/09/13/bad-news-for-dot-com-moguls-ad-blocking/#comment-8108 The flash ads which are games are equally annoying, i.e. hit the monkey to win a prize. The best ads blend in with the page content and they tend to be clicked on more because they don't look like ads. Google Adsense is a good example of this. The flash ads which are games are equally annoying, i.e. hit the monkey to win a prize. The best ads blend in with the page content and they tend to be clicked on more because they don’t look like ads. Google Adsense is a good example of this.

]]> By: Grandt http://www.cyprich.com/2007/09/12/bad-news-for-dot-com-moguls-ad-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-6664 Grandt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:21:54 +0000 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/09/13/bad-news-for-dot-com-moguls-ad-blocking/#comment-6664 It's not just the ones that cover the content that are annoying, it's also the visually "loud" ones, with frantic blinking ("You Won" or "you are the 1Einf'th visitor" type ads). Even worse are the flash ads with sound turned ON by default, really not funny when you open lots of tabs in Firefox. The last type I really hate is the badly written ones, flash or Java ads that use 20-50% of my CPU, grinding my browser to a halt. To be honest, the only ads I don't block at the moment, are Googles. Mmainly because they don't annoy me, and because they are light weight, and the page loads even if the ad server can't be reached. Adtech and the others usually halts the page load when their servers are out of reach, delaying access to the the content you actually came for. It’s not just the ones that cover the content that are annoying, it’s also the visually “loud” ones, with frantic blinking (“You Won” or “you are the 1Einf’th visitor” type ads). Even worse are the flash ads with sound turned ON by default, really not funny when you open lots of tabs in Firefox.

The last type I really hate is the badly written ones, flash or Java ads that use 20-50% of my CPU, grinding my browser to a halt.

To be honest, the only ads I don’t block at the moment, are Googles. Mmainly because they don’t annoy me, and because they are light weight, and the page loads even if the ad server can’t be reached. Adtech and the others usually halts the page load when their servers are out of reach, delaying access to the the content you actually came for.

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