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!

[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..

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

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