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Everyone has a Blog it appears. OK this is mine. My professional Blog. In fact I have two others on another site, and no I am not going to tell you where. Those are anon and will stay that way thank you very much. Not sure what I am going to write here. I'll just go with the flow.
Thursday 25 October 2007, 7:47 PM
More B****y adverts
I've already made my feelings known about adverts. Everywhere I look, there they are.
Today I took a journey from Bristol to Slough, a simple trip down the M4. every truck trundling along in the slow lane at a steady 56 mph, had an advert on it. In one case it wasn't even for the owner of the vehicle.
Also in the fields along the motorway, on the side of buildings, all trying to attract my attention, saying here I am, this is my name, remember it.
Now I hear Microsoft, has bought 1.6% of Facebook in order to sell advertising space on the site. Well I'm glad I de-registered from Facebook a number of weeks ago.
I'm sorry, It is an American marketing attitude, to get the message blasted in front of every possible person at every possible opportunity and I don't like it. It turns me off.
I've complained about the animated advert on ZD Net before now, but now I've noticed I'm getting a blast of full screen adverts before being directed to the page I want to read.
Sorry that is too intrusive. Please stop doing it.
PreviousComments on this post
Yea I know what you mean about the full screen advert. Normally a tactic employed to encourage people to sign up to the website. But considering that I'm showing as logged on it's kind of annoying.
At least it only appears once per session :s
Not much you can do about advertising on the M4 corridor, but when it comes to your PC you can take some steps. I've been using hosts file ad-blocking for years. It's a simple, effective and free way of keeping control of your screen space.
Here's a good place to start;
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
Thanks BitSmith, I'll look into that. Hi Welshtroll, I've had the full screen advert more than once in a session. I was logged on as well.
Ahh, thats very annoying
As for advert blocking when I'm not on IE6 at work I tend to use Firefox, which has some nice Ad Blocking extensions available.
Although BitSmiths host file solution is sounding like a good solution to try out in the future.
