In text ads

Posted Sep 4, 2007 17:14 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246)
In reply to: In text ads by jmorris42
Parent article: LWN advertising update

Actually, I think WalMart may be ahead of Google and NSA in data mining capacity. Scary but true.

I definitely agree, though, that in-text ads are pretty obnoxious. Not nearly as obnoxious as some of the spastic animated ads I've seen, though.

Now, if the in-text ads were the same color (or nearly so) as the rest of the text, required an explicit click, and perhaps brought up their text in a screen corner rather than directly over the text, then perhaps that wouldn't be too bad. I hate having a screen full of bright, shiny booby traps, especially since I tend to read by highlighting. (I'm very distractable, and highlighting helps me keep my place.) I really hate the pop-ups that in-text ads throw at me if I get my mouse too close to them.