February 9, 2006 at 1:32AM Things I hate about the Weekly Standard website
Flash ads. Fucking flash ads. How do you expect me to read the stuff on your bloody website when there are things wizzing about in the corner of my eye? It’s impossible! This is one of the few times I’ve been thankful, yes thankful, that there was a print version of the page.
And they’re not alone. Nooooo! There’s lots of publishers who have so little disrespect for the people who grace their sites that they pull dumb stunts like that.
If you’re publishing articles online, don’t be an asshole: if you need to use advertising, make sure it doesn’t move, flash, fade in and out, or anything else like that. It’s like spitting in your readers’ eyes. And if it’s the case that you can’t avoid it, please, please, please, don’t make it loop.
Because of you dicks, I’m going back to using Adblock again.
Update: Adblock doesn’t seem to have been developed in quite a while, so I’m going to go with FlashBlock, a plugin that suits 80% of my needs right now.
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