Online Advertising is Insanely Intrusive

Let’s have a flashback to the year 2000-2003, back when the internet was full of ads but with a clear difference:

Most of the advertising directed at kids had fun webpage games to play. I used to love the Polly Pocket, Barbie’s My Scene and various other flash games on the YTV website.

Were they all glorified advertisements? Yes. Were they fun? Also, yes.

As long as I kept my headphones on, I could enjoy playing the Polly Pocket theme over and over again with the band mini game. Or, I could listen to the Yu-Gi-Oh demo music over and over without pissing off my parents.

Regardless, ads for kids were fun.

For the adults on the other hand, most advertisers stayed on the side bar. You’d get pop up porn ads once in a while, but nowhere near as frequently as you would nowadays.

That was in the early 2000s.

Now, let’s talk about the average ad in the 2020s.

They are loud, obnoxious, slows down webpages, insist on interrupting your browsing experience and will interrupt any video you’re watching.

Sometimes they sneak into YouTube videos, where the content creator shills for a product they likely don’t care as much about as they claim.

Either way, did you know that the average person is exposed to over 100 ads per day?

It gets even more ridiculous when you see reports that 93% of consumers have reported that they won’t support a product if the ad was shoved into their faces.

Now, these ads wouldn’t be so bad if they were actually interesting. At least on TV commercials, they’d come up with a catchy jingle to grab your attention.

However, because Ad companies are suffering from creative bankruptcy, they need to make the Internet unusable without Ad blockers.

That’s all I have to say on this post, folks.

Have a nice day!

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