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.