Poll: Do adverts Make you angry?

[team star pug]

With the increase of advertisements over the internet, with this being one of the easiest ways for websites to collect money, does the sheer amount of them anger you in any way?

It really grinds my gears when I'm just scrolling done a page when a huge advert for "Mass effect 3" or something pops up and puts a halt to what I'm doing (but fortunately this type of ad only exists on one website) . I know it reminds me that the product exists but it also links that product to a negative feeling.

Another example are the YouTube adverts with the option to skip after 5 seconds, but these five seconds often don't have any mention of the product at all. I honestly just press the skip button as soon as it's available, so putting nothing in those God-damn five seconds is wasting everyone's time.

Last but probably the type of add that pisses me off the most are the ones that (to the effect of that one ZP episode) Pretend to be funny, or just mimic something you love in a blunt attempt to seize your coin purse. Recently on memebase, a website notorious for it's large amount of overly pretentious ad, began running ad for the film "Zookeeper" (as it is illegal to advertise on the escapist, I will play it safe and say you avoid this film like the plague). Lets just say the results got the community a little angry, but at least this demotivational poster was created:

Thank God for ever made this.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Wow, one answer?

Count me obstained from voting then.

I enjoy getting content for "free". But something has to pay for that. Adverts do a good job at this. I've never clicked on one, but still.

If a site's ads are to much, I leave the site.

I make it a point, however, not to buy anything advertised to me in an annoying way.

 

[Jared Brokaw]

no think of it this way. option 1 watch a 30 second advert and get reworded with zero punctuation or one of the escapist many other great videos. option 2 HAVE THERE BE NO ESCAPIST AT ALL BECAUSE THEY CANT MAKE THE MONEY TO KEEP IT RUNNING. people freak out like they don't have 20 seconds to watch an advert when really if you're goofing off online you obviously you do have that time. (not that the escapist is goofing off, hells no the escapist is hard hitting news and entertainment.)

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

SNIP.

So you like puppies? I do as well. Nothing to see here except puppies folks.

OT: I wish people would come up with more creative ads in general.

 

[Aris Khandr]

No. Why would they make me angry?

Oh noes! Someone wants to sell me something! How dare they?

 

[team star pug]

Wow, one answer?

Count me obstained from voting then.

I enjoy getting content for "free". But something has to pay for that. Adverts do a good job at this. I've never clicked on one, but still.

If a site's ads are to much, I leave the site.

I make it a point, however, not to buy anything advertised to me in an annoying way.

I'm sorry, my finger slipped, but it is complete now. I just don't the way were it has gotten to the stage were to write this very comment I had to wait for the skip button to show itself on an advert for I product I don't need, and then type in the word apple pie.

 

[team star pug]

No. Why would they make me angry?

Oh noes! Someone wants to sell me something! How dare they?

Thank you for the disregard, I will assume you haven't educated yourself with the article in question.

 

[intheweeds]

I don't mind them. It comes with getting so much entertainment for free. Same as TV, that's how they pay the bills. Nothing wrong with that or else we don't get any awesome web series or articles.

Same as any medium though, websites walk a line and they (should) know it. Some marketers will always push the line a little too far and some ads are too invasive. Too many of those and your audience goes away leaving you with nothing. Everyone knows they need the revenue to survive, but too many ads and you put up a barrier to the entertainment that keeps your audience.

I make it a point, however, not to buy anything advertised to me in an annoying way.

As do I.

I can, however respect an old fashioned 'here's why my product is better with no bullshit' type of ad. The guy annoys me, but the Dyson commercials are like this. he's just like "here's exactly how our vacuum/fan/whatever works and why it's better than the ones the other guys are making".

I don't like to feel psychologically marketed to. I just wanna know why your product is good. If it isn't good, stop trying to find a way to trick me into wanting it anyway - just make it better.

 

[Aris Khandr]

No. Why would they make me angry?

Oh noes! Someone wants to sell me something! How dare they?

Thank you for the disregard, I will assume you haven't educated yourself with the article in question.

Article? What article? What are you even talking about?

 

[scnj]

I get annoyed when I'm catching up with Escapist videos only to be shown the same 20-30 second ad before each one. I don't fucking want the Battle LA blu-ray.

 

[team star pug]

No. Why would they make me angry?

Oh noes! Someone wants to sell me something! How dare they?

Thank you for the disregard, I will assume you haven't educated yourself with the article in question.

Article? What article? What are you even talking about?

Well, from your poorly written response it sounded like you hadn't even read what we were talking about, a bad habit you ought to get rid of. You see, we were discussing the tactics of advertising, not the bliant idea that someone is selling an item. Do you need anymore information?

 

[team star pug]

I make it a point, however, not to buy anything advertised to me in an annoying way.

Agreed and indeed.

 

[Aris Khandr]

No. Why would they make me angry?

Oh noes! Someone wants to sell me something! How dare they?

Thank you for the disregard, I will assume you haven't educated yourself with the article in question.

Article? What article? What are you even talking about?

Well, from your poorly written response it sounded like you hadn't even read what we were talking about, a bad habit you ought to get rid of. You see, we were discussing the tactics of advertising, not the bliant idea that someone is selling an item. Do you need anymore information?

Yes, specifically what your objection to advertisement is. Because ads are all about people wanting you to buy things, and thus letting you know that those things exist. And your topic is not an "article" by any stretch of the definition. It's a glorified rant at best.

 

[teqrevisited]

Not angry. I just see them as a way to fetch a drink or do something else for a few seconds / minutes.

 

[Hong Meiling]

I never buy anything I see advertised in a commercial.

 

[Xman490]

It depends. If it's something I actually want(ed), like a Subway sandwich, something from Wendy's, or Portal 2, I go so far as to have a smile.
But I'm effing tired of seeing that Progressive b**ch, the Geico gecko, or ten other car insurance companies flaunt their panties at my face for the 50th time.

 

[moosek]

I had to sit through an add on a captcha. I'm fine with something before a video, or a quick add page before an article, but on a captcha; that's where I draw the fucking line!

 

[Canid117]

Only when they intrude upon the sites usability like Gaikai's little abominations.