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I like some ads, as long as they fit in with the site design, aren't in the way of content, and do not target me specifically.

jordigh 13y ago
Can you explain this? Does it give you satisfaction to sit through unobtrusive ads, and you put up with it because you feel like you're helping the website, or do you sit through ads hoping you'll be peddled something you actually wanted to buy but didn't know until you watched that ad?
- dec0dedab0de 13y ago
  It's more that I might want something. Say if I was at a video game site, an ad for the new Zelda would be welcome. As long as it didn't get in the way. Also, I kind of wish more sites took the mindset of http://dodiy.org/ http://dodiy.org/ but thats kind of a pipe dream.
  - luckyno13 13y ago
    Lets not forget quiet. There is almost nothing worse in web surfing than hitting a website only to be ambushed by sounds. Forbid you click and link and then hit back, only to hear it yet again. I really shouldn't have to browse muted.
- stevesearer 13y ago
  I run an office design website that shows new office design projects and discusses office design trends. Though some readers probably wish there was no advertising, most of our readers want to know what products exist because they are office designers. I try to treat it like a magazine where the ads look nice and generally unobtrusive. I'm obviously biased because I make my living on advertising.
  - aluhut 13y ago
    I somehow assumed that advertisers know that ads are annoying but they want to do it anyway because this is how they make money. Assuming that they don't know what a pain the whole concept is is somehow scarry.
    - theknown99 13y ago
      They're not a pain to most people though. That's the point. If I buy a car magazine, guess what... it has some adverts for cars and car related products. Some of which are interesting and useful to me.
      - aluhut 13y ago
        Really? If I buy a car magazine I buy it for the content not for the ads. I assume that there is at least some useful information in the articles and if I want to buy a car, I also go rather for the content in the articles (tests, introductions of new cars with pros and cons) then for the ads which are all pro, hyping and probably also misleading. How are the ads useful to you?
        stevesearer 13y ago
        Ads are useful to my readers because they don't have unlimited time to research 10,000 types of side chairs for use in their office projects. If they see a chair they like in an ad, they'll meet with a furniture dealer to check it out, and then maybe use it in a future project. How is that bad? Many people like advertisements though - just pick up a September issue of Vogue and you'll see over 500 pages of a 900 page magazine filled with ads. And people go out of their way to buy it because they love the ads.
        aluhut 13y ago
        But isn't it you job to have those pictures as part of your content? It's not like the ads have these 10000 types also. They also have only a few. Sometimes an ad even takes 2 pages for one item because they payed more. In the worst case the ad is misleading telling you: "this is the best chair for your because it has XY" and even if you don't belive it in the first place (which is self-evident already. You just don't belive what they tell you because everyone has the same claim of truth. Think about it: we got used to it!) but at the point where you make a decision, maybe far in the future, some subconcious connections that have been manipulated by the ad make you chose the product. This is actually what advertisers aim for. I see it as ethicaly wrong and I'm really sad that you can't see my point of difference between content and avertisment. @vogue: My girfriend reads those magazines also. But she is always annoyed of the ads and the ad manipulated content. Some of these have at least ads you can take out and throw away, which she does also. She does not read the magazines because of the ads but because of the name of the magazine as well as the content (which is why she stoped reading the german Cosmopolitan for excample. The content became the ad in a way it became unreadable for her). I've never ever heard somebody say: I buy/watch this product because I like the ads. I really doubt there is a relevant ammount of people who do this...

jordigh 13y ago

Can you explain this? Does it give you satisfaction to sit through unobtrusive ads, and you put up with it because you feel like you're helping the website, or do you sit through ads hoping you'll be peddled something you actually wanted to buy but didn't know until you watched that ad?

dec0dedab0de 13y ago
It's more that I might want something. Say if I was at a video game site, an ad for the new Zelda would be welcome. As long as it didn't get in the way. Also, I kind of wish more sites took the mindset of http://dodiy.org/ http://dodiy.org/ but thats kind of a pipe dream.
- luckyno13 13y ago
  Lets not forget quiet. There is almost nothing worse in web surfing than hitting a website only to be ambushed by sounds. Forbid you click and link and then hit back, only to hear it yet again. I really shouldn't have to browse muted.
stevesearer 13y ago
I run an office design website that shows new office design projects and discusses office design trends. Though some readers probably wish there was no advertising, most of our readers want to know what products exist because they are office designers. I try to treat it like a magazine where the ads look nice and generally unobtrusive. I'm obviously biased because I make my living on advertising.
- aluhut 13y ago
  I somehow assumed that advertisers know that ads are annoying but they want to do it anyway because this is how they make money. Assuming that they don't know what a pain the whole concept is is somehow scarry.
  - theknown99 13y ago
    They're not a pain to most people though. That's the point. If I buy a car magazine, guess what... it has some adverts for cars and car related products. Some of which are interesting and useful to me.
    - aluhut 13y ago
      Really? If I buy a car magazine I buy it for the content not for the ads. I assume that there is at least some useful information in the articles and if I want to buy a car, I also go rather for the content in the articles (tests, introductions of new cars with pros and cons) then for the ads which are all pro, hyping and probably also misleading. How are the ads useful to you?
      - stevesearer 13y ago
        Ads are useful to my readers because they don't have unlimited time to research 10,000 types of side chairs for use in their office projects. If they see a chair they like in an ad, they'll meet with a furniture dealer to check it out, and then maybe use it in a future project. How is that bad? Many people like advertisements though - just pick up a September issue of Vogue and you'll see over 500 pages of a 900 page magazine filled with ads. And people go out of their way to buy it because they love the ads.
        aluhut 13y ago
        But isn't it you job to have those pictures as part of your content? It's not like the ads have these 10000 types also. They also have only a few. Sometimes an ad even takes 2 pages for one item because they payed more. In the worst case the ad is misleading telling you: "this is the best chair for your because it has XY" and even if you don't belive it in the first place (which is self-evident already. You just don't belive what they tell you because everyone has the same claim of truth. Think about it: we got used to it!) but at the point where you make a decision, maybe far in the future, some subconcious connections that have been manipulated by the ad make you chose the product. This is actually what advertisers aim for. I see it as ethicaly wrong and I'm really sad that you can't see my point of difference between content and avertisment. @vogue: My girfriend reads those magazines also. But she is always annoyed of the ads and the ad manipulated content. Some of these have at least ads you can take out and throw away, which she does also. She does not read the magazines because of the ads but because of the name of the magazine as well as the content (which is why she stoped reading the german Cosmopolitan for excample. The content became the ad in a way it became unreadable for her). I've never ever heard somebody say: I buy/watch this product because I like the ads. I really doubt there is a relevant ammount of people who do this...