I am not, in principle, against the concept of internet advertising. Of course I’m not. I have banner ads displayed on Jump Leads and Dream17, and I myself advertise using pillar and banner ads on other websites. I have no problem with an area of the websites I visit being dedicated to advertising, being honest.
However it does annoy me when these adverts extend outwards over the website you’re trying to read. You’ve probably seen the sort of ad I mean - it looks like a pillar ad or a simple banner ad, but it will either extend to a bigger size and overlap the content you’re trying to read, or it will pop open a Flash window. It’s bloody irritating. What’s wrong, Internet Marketing Companies? Can’t you just use the space you’re paying for? I find these advertisements exceedingly intrusive and I generally refuse to click on them on principle.
There’s an ad like that now on the IMDB, in fact. It’s for Resident Evil: Extinction, and it doesn’t actually have a banner associated with it. You just get a flash pop up over the text you’re trying to read, a video plays, and then it vanishes again. Even if I wanted to click on it, once it vanishes there’s no evidence it was even there; no sign of where it came from or where it went. It’s very, very annoying.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:14 am
Ha, you tell ‘em, Ben.
Also, could I just say that I think your current webcomic, Jump Leads, is without a shadow of a doubt the best written new comic I have seen on the Internet. I am British, living in Thanet, the arsehole of the Earth, and it really lifts my heart to know that we can do just as well in this field as our American friends (whom you are no doubt better acquainted with than myself).
Thank you.
Harry
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