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I read and surf quite a bit online. I understand that ads are a legitimate way for web sites to try and generate revenue, but some sites just take it way too far.  I am not against ads and I’ve heard some people say they make it a point to ignore them, but I feel like that is wrong as they are providing some free content for you.  If a site isn’t overloaded with ads, I’m OK with taking a quick glance here and there. I rarely ever click on an ad, but if it genuinely interests me, I will.  Here are a few annoying but popular web sites that are overdosed with ads.  If cursing offends you, then look away, because I am about to vent and there are no other words that can so aptly describe how I feel in these situations.

http://www.yahoo.com/ – The ad on the right is way too big.  Even worse though, is at times, they have some monster animation ad that takes over your entire page until it’s either completed it’s animation or you click the little “X” to close it.  In the meanwhile, you can’t do anything else, you’re stuck watching the thing.  The “X” is difficult to find and I pay NO attention to the ad mostly because I’m occupied with finding the tiny little fucking “X” to close the fucking thing.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/ – Yahoo video is the absolute worst of the pack.  I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a video junk news story (anything to do with celebrities, some insane sports event, animals doing funny things, kids doing funny things, etc) on the yahoo main page that I always am fooled into clicking.  You know what happens 90% of the time?  The ad plays first, where I’m thinking, “OK, hurry the fuck up, I don’t care”.  And then… after all that waiting… using up all my patience… you get a big fat fuck you.  Either a, “This video is no longer available” or “This video has been removed due to copyright violations” or the damn thing just glitches out and you’re left with nothing.  I can’t express how fucking frustrating that is.  Not only did I NOT get to watch whatever useless junk bullshit I just clicked on, I just watched an AD.  You mother fuckers.  How the fuck is your stock still sitting at $15?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/ – The Daily Show and the Colbert Report.  One of my favorite shows.  Pure genius that Stewart and Colbert.  Hilarious, brilliant and interesting.  The show is around 30 minutes long and there are typically around 5 minutes of ads.  I’m actually OK with that, these guys need to make a living.  The problem is, and I’m not sure if they just don’t get enough sponsors or what, but oh my fucking GOD, they repeats adds like a motherfucker.  And it is so annoying to have to listen to an ad over and over and over again.  I’m not even talking about the same ad playing at different times, which is annoying enough, I am talking about ads playing back to fucking back.  Over and over again on repeat.  There was this one ad on there for Jack in the Box, where Jack is trying build a Jumbaco sandwich and these little fuckers keep singing Jumbaco! Jumbaco! Jumbaco!… Of course, this was during the republican primaries (just an abundant goldmine of comedic material) and both shows were firing on all cylinders so I had to push though the pain.

http://money.cnn.com, http://www.forbes.com/, http://www.businessinsider.com/ -
They put out lists like “The 25 top companies to work for”, or “Most expensive cars of the year”, or “The richest under 30″, etc.  And guess what?  Each name that they list has it’s own page.  Not one page that loads where you can click next and the page dynamically updates, but a separate page for each item on the list.  To get to the next item, you have to click next and then wait for the page to load.  They do this so they can show you different ads on every page.  Sometimes, they’ll even throw in an ad page right in the middle of the list.  So you go from number one, two, three, AD, four, five, AD, six, seven, AD, etc…

There are other sites out there that employ these strategies and to me, it makes no sense.  It always frustrates the hell out of the users.  Just be smart about revenue generation.  Like I was mentioning earlier, and I think most people fit into this category, ads are only a problem if they are obstructive.  Prevent me, in any way from enjoying the experience of visiting your site and I’ll make it a point to ignore your ads as much as I can.  Let me handle what I’m actually visiting your site for and maybe I’ll take a look at what your advertising and maybe check it out.  It’s like in Vegas when you are walking on the strip and you get those grimy peddlers with the “Girls direct to you” t-shirts pushing those small lamented advertisements of stripper and hoez right into your face.  The fact that you get right up in my grill with those things doesn’t mean I’m buying nor does it make me want to buy.  Just, please, for god’s sake, don’t be that guy.

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