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The 5 Most Annoying Banner Ads On The Internet
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Win a Free Thing
Banner ads used to promise instant free prizes, but even the dumbest internet surfer eventually realized that just maybe there weren't magical love-powered companies dedicated to giving free electronics to everyone on the planet. Before we could celebrate this unprecedented leap in human intelligence, it was countered by companies convincing the masses that they had earned the prizes - and the "convincing" is about as believable as the phrase "Professor Tim Allen". The first way to win your magical elf-made free prizes is 'skill' with "click on the monkey/smiley/fucking thing" banners. I hate to break it to you, seat-warmer, but your ability to move a mouse and click it is NOT the unique skill, honed by years of hard work, that is about to start paying off for you. There are no olympic games in mouse mastery, no bling or ho's for cursor movers, and no fabulous cash prizes for outwitting a looping two second animation. Hitting the moving monkey is like successfully placing a CD in a toaster - quite easy to do and you're going to look stupid for expecting a reward. The second way is to be as lucky as me - I've been the 1,000,000th visitor to seventeen sites just today, some of them several times in a row. I could buy a lotto ticket, wrap it around some dice thrown into a roulette wheel and win all three. I'm less likely than a 50 cent shout out to Vanilla Ice. With my amazing anti-statistical-likelihood aura it's only a matter of time before I start levitating or spontaneously burst into flames, and it's this knowledge that every second could be my last which prevents me from claiming the warehouse of wonderful gifts with my name on it. It's only fair I leave them to somebody who'll live longer, like the next person to be 1,000,000th visitor. Probably you, so you're welcome. One thing all these ads have in common is legalese fine print which, like mobile-phone cancer and minesweepers wrist, is a disease of modern society. The usual litigious strategy of burying phrases like "We're going to take everything you own at ten million per cent interest then bend you over without lubrication" inside ten page hyper-syllabic documents doesn't work in banner ads, which is why in some the entire second half is dedicated to disclaiming the first half, while others have realized that a simple "*" means you can say anything you want. For those of you too busy claiming your wonderful unicorn-delivered internet pots of leprechaun gold, here's a handy translation of every prize-winning banner ever: "You have won a FREE* thing! (*Fuck you, moron.)" |
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No I think the worst ad's are those "saving feels good" ads seirously they appeer on almost every site I frequently go on
The worst ads of all time are the ones with those stupid dancing people. I f*****g hate the stupid dancing people!! A little bit of sanity oozes away everytime I see one -_-
Frickin, farkin, f*****g Party f*****g Poker! Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, ad nauseum. Pun inteded. Hate.
No, no, no! Most annoying ads of all... Ads with sound! Like the stupid You have won a Nintendo Wii add, that is now on ever damn web page known to man!
i agree with Souris, in a way. What about the ads that make noises at you? when you scroll over the "With Sound!" smiley ads, each smiley yells some kind of cliched phrase at you. Or even worse - the scenario where you have your volume turned all the way up to better hear your favorite music and the page you click on has a giant banner ad with a female electronic voice that is somehow much louder than iTunes. this stereotypical computer voice informs you that you have won a free ipod repeatedly until you close the page. now THOSE types should have made this list too!
What about ads that make noises like shrill beeping every few seconds to get your attention?
They're rare, but seriously annoying when you come across them... you know, throw-your-computer-across-the-room type of annoying
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Those damn jiggling ads compel me to view pages in source code. I'd rather wade through HTML than have someone try to get my attention in the most annoying way possible, just so they can try to sell me something for something I don't have. (ex: penis enlargement pills for my vagina x_x)
This is so true! great article :p
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any ad that had sound in it. this is especially aggravating if i need to open multiple tabs at once only to frantically search for which page began the screeching and wailing (usually associating with those frighteningly huge smiley things that satan apparently decided would be "fun" to unleash on mankind).
oh, and really awful CG people in a less-than-convincing animation loop that makes it look like they should be walking in circles or just falling over.
oh... and ads that someone decided would be "clever" to make blend right in to the site they're on. you think it's really another "cute little game" on your "cute little game" site and suddenly they want your cell number... and they would like to charge you $9.99/mo for no discernible reason. these are not dangerous for an adult whose IQ > their age, but these things pop up on sites like myspace and other sites with kids. it's just too mean to rip off parents because you managed to make your ad look just like all the other legit features of the parent-approved website some brat is on.