Not just on DD either. Everywhere I go, there are blinking, whirling, flashing, gyrating, sliding, rotating, hopping ads trying to get my attention.
Listen people, if I want to buy something from Spiegel's , I will get myself a catalog and do so. I am a big girl, I know how to do that. And who in their right mind would buy life insurance from an internet comany with a flashing pop up with a zombie rising from the grave?
I am advertised to death. I am immune. As a matter of fact I am about to become
surly and stubborn. This is not the best outcome for salespeople. I knew something had taken a drastic change for the worse when a few television stations started putting an ad on at the end so you could buy the CD that was used for the sound track of the show. Give me a flippin' break people!
I think I have "pitch burn". Overexposure to people trying to sell me stuff I don't want, I don't need and I don't even like. If they were door to door salesmen, you could get a nice big slobbering dog and tie it to your front porch to warn them away. But no such animal exists in the cyber realms that gets rid of ALL of the annoying ads.
So listen, Mr. Speigel company. Send me a free catalog, and I'll look at it, but get the heck off my computer screen.
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Let me know if you're still having problems after checking that :)
At least this admin is showing some responsibility in what pop-ups he's allowing. I've was hijacked three times, on three different hosts, by this absolutely obnoxious ad that takes over your homepage, tries to open and shut your CD drive, and then claims your computer can be taken over by hackers if you don't download their product.
I spend *a lot* of time on the web, and I've been pretty much backed into downloading a pop-up blocker, because it's just not safe out there anymore.
Rach xx
ads are one of the things i don't miss about telly
sez
I've immunized myself to ads so well I find if I like a commercial because it's cute or funny I still don't remember what they're trying to sell. Except Geico (and that's only because of the gecko/Geico thing) and I still won't buy their car insurance because my premium will go straight into their advertising budget.
I made up my mind a long time ago that I wouldn't shop at Macy's because any store that can afford a 4-full-page ad in the SF Chronicle *every weekday* does NOT need my money.
Being unable to stem the tide of advertising (I'm with you: if I need something, I know how to go out and find it myself), I resign myself to attempting to steadfastly ignoring it. Like the man with the overcoat, the cold wind will never coax me to remove it by buffeting me relentlesly. I wish Madison Avenue would figure that out.
--Solo