Seems that websites all over the place are coming up with ads that pop-up blockers pay no attention to. Sort of pees me off and if it gets too bad, I'll probably stop going to most of the Internet. Even my email has new ads. I have the premium version of our email program and now they want me to upgrade that so that the ads won't show. Just want money is all they want. Pee on them. I'll simply go to a freebie if it gets too bad. accuweather is one web site I used to go to much but they've been going downhill bad now for a couple years and it continues to get worse. Now they have some junk that comes up all the time. I deleted the bookmark.
Here here! That’s the truth! I stick with my local weather app for the most part. It loads up with a advertisement but that’s it. It has become very frustrating internet wide
It comes from the rollback of regulations regarding how companies can use the information you generate while on the net. It used to be companies needed your permission to share your information but no more. Your information is now bought and sold to other companies with no permission needed.
It's all about chasing the $'s. The ad vendors get a small amount of money for each visit to a page they have an ad on. I've become numb to them and just glaze over them as I read what I'm looking for. Just like product placement on TV shows and movies. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
For me, the worst thing is the so-called "lightboxes" - that's where you land on a site you haven't been on before (probably a google result) and after some fixed amount of time or amount of rolling down *BAM* a box comes up over the top of the material you were reading (and that material is dimmed) with the box saying sign up or subscribe to our newsletter or whatever. You have to close it to get back to the sentence you were in the middle of ... if you can close it at all. They are becoming more and more prevalent and no countermeasure works. I'm slowly starting to moderate my browsing and more and more sticking to the couple of dozen sites I'm familiar with. It's just too frustrating exploring new content.
Couple days ago AlmostNeverAccuWeather started with the popup talking about ads and showing how many times I loaded the page. I use AdBlocker quite a bit. Another problem with all the ads is the bandwidth that's used. If someone has a cap on their use, ads use a bunch of it. Look around while you're driving.....anywhere, but especially in the larger metro areas. What do you see? Billboards. Flashing, changing, distracting, billboards. Everywhere.
You can shut javascript off and eliminate a lot of the pop-ups and "lightboxes" but then you'll get just as many notifications that a website you're viewing has lost functionality because javascript is off . Seems a lot of APP updates on iOS lately are just ways to slam ads in new places in the app. :sigh: I run ad-blockers even though some pages I can't read because of them. I might whitelist a site if the ad-blocker app indicates just a few ads because I really don't read ads and pretty much am not influenced by them ( no Bud Light or feminine hygiene products for me !) but 50, 60, 70 ads on a single page is abuse of the reader IMO. And then there can be malware hiding in some of them and the owners of the web pages DNGAF ? I don't think so.
Removing the regs allowed companies to purchase your browsing history, without your permission or knowledge, thus targeting you for more specific and blanket ad coverage.
I like the link on there that takes you to the “visible” clouds product. Let’s you see some really neat detail.
And I like to put it on radar when storms are coming. Put it on moving then check the box for automatic updates. Let it work in the background then just switch tabs to check on where the storm is.
Try this: Say in as sincere a voice as you can manage, "That sounds interesting, I'll - uh, hang on a minute while I take something off the stove." Then leave the phone and see how long it takes them to figure out you're not coming back. Even if they are paying a low rate per minute on the call, the time they spend waiting is time they don't victimize someone else and time they're not making sales. Bonus points if you carry on a conversation just at the limit of hearing, as if you've completely forgotten you were on the phone. If you haven't got someone to talk to, you can ask and answer questions like the other person is in another room, out of earshot of the caller. You could even keep them going by responding just as they're about to hang up, listen for a couple more minutes then ring your own doorbell and take another "break", and so on for as long as you can keep from laughing.
