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ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?!?!?!
Why in the world would you WANT to see a full-screen advertisement when you visit any website? I absolutely detest
those things. When I visit a website, I want the first thing I am presented with to be the content of the site,
NOT a full-page advertisement with some lame message like, "Please wait while your page is loading," or "Welcome
Screen," or some other annoying and/or disingenuous text. Do the webmasters really think visitors are stupid enough
to believe that the website's real content is loading behind the advertising screen, and that they are doing visitors
a favor by providing something to look at in the mean time? Most websites load in less time than a full-page graphical
ad takes to load.
I run into these dang things every day while collecting headlines from many different websites. The content of
the sites are very good or I wouldn't be visiting them and providing hyperlinks to them all the time, but the splash
ads really get annoying. Yeah, the companies have a right to do whatever they want and have paying advertisers for
support, but I think the full-page blasts are really over the top. Advertisers pay major $/¥/£/€
for those spots - sometimes more than for all the other ads combined. Evidently inconveniencing potential customers
is acceptable.
Here are some examples of what I am talking about. You have probably seen these and others like them.
Tech News World |
RCR Wireless |
Defense Systems |
EDN |
eWeek |
IEEE Spectrum |
Electronics Weekly |
Fierce Wireless |
Electronic Design |
Microwave Journal |
EE Web |
Microwaves & RF |
Posted March 1, 2015
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