- being tracked around the internet without a very good reason
- being lied to by advertisers that make spurious claims
- adverts that use flashing/moving things to draw my attention
- anything that makes my computer make a sound when I might be somewhere quiet
- anything that grossly wastes electricity or bandwidth
- anything that's not related to the context of the page I'm looking at (see point 1)
Ad platforms like Google AdSense's text adverts, or Carbon Ads, would be kind of OK if they didn't track the heck out of me. It's the ever-escalating attention war between content and ads that's the main problem. It started with "punch the monkey" ads that tricked people into clicking, and it's continuing with full-page-take-over-the-browser-video-ads now.
Advertising is fine. Taking my full attention away from what I want to focus on without my permission is not.
Ugh honestly the text adverts are more annoying than banners and the like. It makes it feel like the _content of the site itself_ is being optimized for revenue, rather than being useful content. And god forbid you hover the wrong word and bring up a 400x400 popover telling you how great some product is.
Maybe these aren't AdSense text adverts, but this was my general experience with text adverts as a whole.
- being tracked around the internet without a very good reason
- being lied to by advertisers that make spurious claims
- adverts that use flashing/moving things to draw my attention
- anything that makes my computer make a sound when I might be somewhere quiet
- anything that grossly wastes electricity or bandwidth
- anything that's not related to the context of the page I'm looking at (see point 1)
Ad platforms like Google AdSense's text adverts, or Carbon Ads, would be kind of OK if they didn't track the heck out of me. It's the ever-escalating attention war between content and ads that's the main problem. It started with "punch the monkey" ads that tricked people into clicking, and it's continuing with full-page-take-over-the-browser-video-ads now.
Advertising is fine. Taking my full attention away from what I want to focus on without my permission is not.