Dear advertisers
if you want me to see your advertisements, stop making them in your face, attention grabbing distractions.
Nearly every day I visit a NZ news site called Stuff, it’s a good way to get a quick snapshot of the days headlines and give my brains some downtime from coding. I used to use IE, it was there and I didn’t have to think about it, but then a couple of years ago Stuff started adding those annoying fly out ads that forced me to interact with them. I resented having such an intrusive ad so I went looking and found Firefox and Adblock, I haven’t looked back… until recently.
With the advent of Google Chrome I found a nice clean browser that does what I need and does it pretty well, except it doesn’t block ads. I went back to the Stuff site today – this time I was using Chrome, and I was assaulted by annoying in your face adds that distracted me from my true purpose once again. I wouldn’t mind the ads, except the incessant moving / blinking / changing keeps dragging my focus away from what I was reading ( most ads seem to act like that fluorescent light fitting in your office with the broken starter ).
I’m now back using Firefox to peruse the Stuff site and none of their advertisers get me eyeballing their ads, the only downside for me is I don’t get to choose the browser I use.
End rant.
PS If you’re still using IE in any shape or form – go grab Firefox (and maybe even Chrome). Microsoft dropped the ball with IE long ago and still haven’t figured how to pick it up again.
