Okay, I know this blog have been somewhat quiet as of late, well as of long – so time to kick it up again with a complain post.
Oh, how sick I am of advertisement on internet pages.
I see many pages with adverts are about using 2.5+ MB for a page, when without adverts the page size is under 1MB.….. that is insane.
Now, I know that for many independent sites, advertisement income is the main – if not only – source of income, and by blocking them I’m not providing them with income.
Well – frankly – I do not care anymore. They brought it upon themselves.
The few sites out there I actually want to support, which have no other source of income, I’m more than willing to donate money to and have done so in the past when possible.
But for example news sites – their income should be news and news distribution. Not advertising for random irrelevant movies in the cinema or shopping malls.
If they do not earn enough money by making and selling news – they are irrelevant.
And well – I would never ever once even click an advert on a webpage – so there really is no loss by me blocking them either – it’s just saving me the annoyance of having to look at them.
I do not really mind “text adverts” or similar – but “loud” advertisement is the reason people are blocking more and more adverts and the reason why plug ins exists for doing so.
Adverts which play music, overlays, blinks and all those things are instant block for me. Also because some of them are made by such inept people that they actually can completely disrupt navigation on a site.
They also make the site annoying difficult to surf via mobile devices (yes, I know certain products don’t do well with flash, but – well, some of us use devices which can) which are becoming an increasingly large part of the internet traffic.
Sites like these must adapt or die. Well unfortunately those two sites won’t die out soon because as said – they’re part of the news media – but luckily – we’ll see other sites die down.
I’ve also started blocking Google adverts, because while I do appreciate at least a mediocre of actually relevant adverts, I do not like the Big Brother aspect of them, and therefore those cookies and script blocking will also become a larger part of my browsers.
I hate adverts. I change the channel when they’re on TV or in the radio – and I block them on the internet, and I will continue to do so as the adverts become increasingly invasive.
I will recommend everybody go get the anti-advert plugins for their browser and the anti-tracking cookie plugins. The only way the websites will learn is if they get hurt on their wallet.
