Advertising Sucks

Nothing is more irritating than pop up ads, mouse traps, and other vicious ways of getting you to read ads for some product you would never buy. As if pop-ups weren't bad enough, now we have to deal with "Flash" Ads. The hackers of the disgusting advertising industry have broken out noisy, resource sucking, flash ads that take forever to load on a dial-up and waste your time - because really - what metal fan wants to buy the stupid latest "Redman" cd?

"Flash" is great on websites. It gives them pizazz, flair, and most of all it steps away from the drab frames format of yesterday. But it didn't take long for some marketing loser to decide this same software could be used for the new wave up pop-ups, the screen blocker.

The Add scrolls down, slides in, or by some other way appears in your window playing an animated sequence telling you to buy the latest "Viagra Alternative", "Hip-Hop CD", or how you can make millions a month "Just By Sitting On Your Ass!" All the while blocking the view of what you actually came to see, Where Annihilator's next tour stop is.

As a society we've made it clear, we have no interest in seeing the graffiti like advertising we are pummeled with every day by purchasing TiVo, downloading pop-up blockers, and getting Spam filters. But the Advertising industry insists it knows what's best for all of us and continues to assault us with ads everywhere. Even good old fashion baseball stadiums can't have decent names like "The Polo Grounds" anymore, now it's f?!@ing Microsoft Park. Ugh. Someone put out my eyes, and make me go deaf, that's the only way I'll win.