Memo to the big honchos at The Washington Post:
Yeah, I know, the content ain’t free, running a website costs real money and selling ads is a good way of earning some moola, so I don't mind tasteful, well-placed, attractive ads on web pages, but the things that scroll, pop, slide, drip, follow the cursor, obscure large patches of text, talk or play tunes to me without my express permission are another matter altogether... Oh, boy, I despise those with vengeance!
No, I'm not going to buy a Dell or anything at Radio Shack because of these “advertising messages”– au contraire, I'm going to deliberately avoid these places because their sliding ads that open unexpectedly and obliterate everything on the page piss me off!
Yes, everybody wants to make a buck but if the drive to make one literally obscures your main goal (i.e. providing information/content) then what's the point..? Show me tasteful ads in a way that doesn't insult my intelligence and doesn't tax my patience.
Please, Washington Post: leave the scrolling/dripping ads to the yellow press and 14-year old morons!
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