Two recurring messages that are really getting on my tits

[muckefuck]

1. Whenever I go to my LJ Friends page without first logging in, I get a popover video ad and above it is the legend "Once this ad ends you will be returned to your LiveJournal experience." Blow me, marketers. I do not have a "LiveJournal experience"; I have a LiveJournal. Stop dicking me around when I'm trying to use it for its actual purpose.
2. I watch a lot of videos on VEVO which has the same problem of a lot of web-based for-profit services, namely a narrow pool of advertisers. There's the occasional pay-per-view pitch or Army recruitment ad, but at least half the time there's the same bloody ad from an agency calling itself "Defeatthedebt.com". I've long suspected that the people who are so incredibly concerned about the national debt now that they've launched a nationwide ad campaign are the selfsame slugs who couldn't have given a shit about it under Bush and I've finally gotten around to pulling their curtain. The ads are funded by the EPI, a project of superlobbyist Richard Berman (a.k.a. "Dr Evil"). FOAD.

Comments

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

#1 Ugh, I know, right?

On YouTube, I occasionally get these anti-Meth ads. I am all for stopping meth, but these ads are such a Debbie Downer after listening to a very upbeat song!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the pre-video ads half as much as the post-video ones. There's nothing quite so irritating as attempting to savour the afterglow of a really lovely song only to have it brutally cut short by some announcer's voice urging me to finish a useless online degree.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

On item 1, if you hit "reload" immediately, the ad will stop and will not recur on the reload. (At least, that's my experience; since the decision ad/no ad is apparently somewhat random, it may be pure chance that it's happened that way.)

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

its creepy to have clinque and prescriptives ads follow me to foreign newspaper sites where those products are not sold, but this is prefered to the sites where the ads actually pop out and block the text is creepy, especially when the ads follow as you scroll. I surf silently, and pop the sound only for video clips - my mute button is my best friend.

When I am on my own I will gladly get a newspaper and a few magazine subscriptions just so I don't feel like I am being data-mined for each I syllable I read..

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

Advertisers often use your IP address to determine in what country you are located. So it doesn't matter that the site you are visiting is "foreign". I get Spanish ads when I visit US sites as well.

Chuck

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I get the trackability issue. I was in SF at a Net Trade Mag during the roll out of the first CRM's and was creeped out then. I know that the net means one is trackable in all possible ways - I hate that the net is in a slight way dictating what I can discover. This net variant is as sad as going to Jakarta and seeing KFC and Dunkin' Donuts. I feel unable to escape the US in cyberspace in instances where I would want to be able to...Trivial and whiny sure, but is it too much to ask that I see real French ads when I visit Le Monde. My sense is , yes it is too much to ask. In the creepy diet ads that are tailored to what housewives in "my locale" are doing - all this marketing does is deepen my disgust and move me closer to abandoning the websites with such advertising.

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

FOAD? (googles) Oh, right. Like DIAF!