A Rant Book

Hate #3: Pop up ads

Everybody hates these. Everybody. No exceptions. I bet even the idiots who make them hate them. Like seriously, it's hard enough to find a decent website to watch the movie on already, why do you have to add in these freaking ads that NO ONE will like. 

Ugh. It annoys the F'ing crap out of me. Especially when you go to exit out of them, and they come up with things like:

"This website highly recomends you update your java player, are you sure you want to leave?"

Then you click "Yes, leave this page"

Then it will come up again with "This website highly recomends you update your java player, are you sure you want to leave?"

Seriously?! I'm just like for f***s sake! So now i'm stuck going in bloody circles trying to exit the webpage. Which forces me to go to the start menu, right click explorer, find the tab etc. Its freakin annoying.

But you know what annoys me the most about them? It's that people continue to make them, but they aren't even freaking sucessful!

A Wharton marketing professor, Patricia Williams, says that there is not enough research on this to determine whether they are successful or not. But from what she has seen, people prefer newspaper, magazine and TV ads. Pop-up ads are even below godamn telemarketing!

Yeah, so basically they suck, and they don't work. Why can't advertisers understand that people who are on the internet, DON'T WANT to be freaking interrupted! Pop-up ads are downright intrussive and all they're trying to do is scam you! Geezus!

I hate them. But for the record, i'm not hating that much on websites that allow this kind of crap. I mean, I get it, they need money to run the website and thats probably the only kind of advertising they could get without being reported because you know, their website is probably illegal (yeah, i'm talking watching TV shows and movies online, damn Teen Wolf only airing on Foxtel in Aus)

But I especially hate it when they have AUDIO. Urgh, it is just so annoying! So i'll share a story.

So it's Tuesday night, lets say about 8:30pm. I'm pumped, you know? Because new NCIS, NCIS LA and Teen Wolf episodes have just come out. So after i've watched NCIS and NCIS LA on TV, I walk into the rumpus to grab my laptop from my school bag (because, I stress again, Teen Wolf only airs on Foxtel in Australia), I come back out, and sit on the couch. After i've opened my laptop I go on 'watchseries.it' I see the new TW episode that I want and I click it. Then I click 'play'.

All of a sudden I hear this big, loud, mans voice ask me if i'm interested in making money while doing nothing. Seriously, its the loudest sound ever to come out of my freaking laptop "HELLO, I'M DERBRAIN, I EARNED 3 KAJILLION DOLLARS IN 5 DAYS! DO YOU WANT TO EARN MONEY ONLINE!? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GIVE ME YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS AND I WILL TRANSFER OVER BILL GATES' LIFE SAVINGS AND THROW IN AN IPAD AND FERRARI"

I'm actually curious, does ANYONE fall for this crap?

"Uh, yeah sure sir, my brain just fell out of my nasal cavity and while i'm at it, here is my family heirloom golden handcrafted necklace and my Mother's soul"

What kind of idiot would actually say "Wow. Sounds totally well and truly 100% legitimate, done deal mate"

Futhermore, the sound of his voice alone was off putting, what a sleaze bag. All it would take is him to just utter a single letter and i'd be halfway to ripping the audio compartment out of my laptop and throwing it all the way to Timbuktu.

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