Cow-a-bonga, Dude!
Mooooo!
Cranky Old Woman here!
I've written in the past about my preference for ad-free blogs.
On those occasions, I always hear back from people who point out that there is nothing wrong with trying to make money from having a blog (absolutely true, but not my thing at all) and that advertising is everywhere and why shouldn't it be on blogs (what next -- ads on toilet paper?). I still visit blogs that have visual advertisements, but not as frequently as those that don't. Now I'm aware of a new phenomenon, so dreadful that I might possibly come to believe that visual ads on blogs really aren't that terrible!
I'm speaking of audio ads! Recently I've had abrupt loud advertisements come out of my computer, seemingly at random. Observation shows that these horrible ads stop immediately if I close the tab for the blog that I'm reading. I don't see anything on the blog to indicate that there is going to be a loud ad, but, then, since it happens very close to the time I open the blog, I don't have a lot of time to look around.
Anybody know anything about this?
I vow that if/when I actually pinpoint blogs that have these uncontrollable audio ads, I will immediately delete them from my links, favorites, and every place that I have blog lists. Please don't tell me that there's nothing wrong with them and that advertising is everywhere. I should have some say in this.
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Comments
Methinks we should write the company that is advertising and tell them to cease and desist or we won't buy their product and we'll spread the word. Power to the people!
Hugs!
I am totally with you on websites and blogs that blast unwanted NOISE (be in music or speech or both) when I arrive. UGH UGH UGH
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOing along with you!
So intrusive.
Seriously, I have not run across those yet, but will moo vociferously when I do. I have encountered blogs in the past that have some sort of soft music playing in the background. I thought kind of nice at first until it looped for the 23rd time and I was ready to pull my hair out. Most of those blogs have since taken the music off because it made the blog page so memory intensive and took so long to load.
"Advertising is everywhere"? Only where people/companies are willing to let it be, i.e. where the space is sold. And we all have the option of supporting those sites/places/companies that are congruent with our beliefs and desires and NOT supporting those which aren't. I am something of an expert at tuning out visual ads, but will continue to default to no sound on my computer so I don't encounter intrusive audio.
Speaking of sound, my personal MOO is the "beep" of car horns to signal remotely that the car is locked. I have been startled many times when a seemingly empty automobile loudly honks its horn at me! I find this to be rude, annoying, and selfish. Why not have the car flick its lights instead? No sound pollution.
Moooooo!
Its a shocker. There you are quietly reading, and suddenly you are assaulted by sound. Thank goodness there are not that many blogs that do it.
Love your blog, by the way.