Comments on: Tacky Apple ads wreck stories

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:24:16 +0000

heh. Or maybe I’ll just put Linux on my laptop : ) It’s something I really HAVE been meaning to do.

The idea daunts me a bit, though, I have to admit : )

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:20:08 +0000

hahahaha

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:53:02 +0000

Insert crying baby noise here.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:33:21 +0000

and we’ll miss YOU.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:30:49 +0000

“How the hell are you supposed to properly take in a story with that kind of drivel churning away beside it?”

Turn Javascript off, and all of that annoying, flashing adcrap goes away or at least sits still.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:05:23 +0000

How about buying a personality first?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:02:44 +0000

Ugh. So dumb. Okay, NOW I’m not coming back.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:14 +0000

I was going to use this site as a source for news, but after reading this article, you can completely forget about my readership because I’m never coming back to this site, ever.

See how stupid that sounds? You call this an article? Hack.

PS I’m really not coiming back, though. And those of you who think there’s too much mindless crap out there should think about doing the same. Wouldn’t be crap to visit if no one visited crap.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:02:12 +0000

Sure I am. I’m also thinking of buying a tropical island. When I can afford it.

The latter will probably come first ;P

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:53:20 +0000

Adblock Plus. Problem solved.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:00:04 +0000

Proximodo (). *Never* begin web browsing without it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:56:32 +0000

You obviously are not running ‘Proximodo’ (). Get with the program (so to speak).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:47:08 +0000

I hate popup ads and the kind you mentioned in your story â€” in your face advertising.

But still, WERE YOU REALLY thinking of buying a Mac until you saw this ad? No, of course you weren’t. But you knew the headline would draw a crowd, even if the related story didn’t deserve that crowd, but another about lousy advertising.

Well, you fooled me.

Once.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:30:53 +0000

True.
CNET has these stupid mini-video ads running while you’re trying to read an article.
It’s so damn annoying I’ll resize my browser window or scroll part or all of the cr*p out of my vision.
Talk about turning people OFF!
I like them on TV but on a computer monitor these ads suck.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:08:46 +0000

That kind of ad is why i turned off my browsers flash plugin about 5 years ago.

If i come across a site that requires flash, i find another site instead. No one site is worth the hassle involved in turning flash back on. Only PR/marketing morons think flash is a good idea, and any company that gives PR/marketing that much emphasis isn’t worth looking at or dealing with.