People Don't Mind Popups?
from the say-what? dept
I'm not sure if I believe this, but some study says that 72% of online users don't mind pop up ads. Yes, that's scary. If you look a little more at the details, it's not clear that's what the study is really saying. While I still wonder if the study was biased in many ways, I think what this shows is that people have started to accept that popups are a necessary evil. That doesn't mean they like them. That also doesn't mean they'll help your cause by putting pop ups anywhere. I still believe that most people get an instinctual negative reaction anytime an unwanted, unasked for browser window pops open on their screen. However, unfortunately, studies like these are only going to encourage more morons to put popups on their pages.
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Perfect -- what occurs as I return to techdirt after reading the eMarketing.com story? A popup ad. :)
Apparently I forget to disable javascript after upgrading the browser on this machine...and I'm sorry to report that a year of browsing without javascript has caused by popup-killing reflexes to atrophy horribly.
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I would rather my favourite site went to the wall than I had to put up with *any* form of advertising.
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Popups ...
While I'm ranting I'd just like to add that I have kept popup use to a minimum on my site by using other advertising means ... it sure takes a lot more work now than it used to. ;)
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How you make money is a business model issue that you need to work out as the owner of your site. You don't have an unalienable right to make money. Even you admit that your users don't like popup ads. What sort of business is it where you want to upset your own users? A creative business figures out a way to make money while not pissing off its users.
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On a funny note, a co-worker kept one of those X-10 pop-ups on his desktop all day, because he thought the girl in the ad was 'hot'. Is that sad or is it just me?
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We are now stealing money from folks because *WE AREN'T BUYING THINGS FROM THEM*. Jeesh, and I thought the entertainment industry was going overboard...why not, their customers are willing to blindly spout their own arguments...Maybe we deserve all this...after all, we're more than happy to spend our lives savings on repaying debt in order to keep webmasters, the entertainment industry, and marketeers employed.
When will people learn, it is not a right or a privilege for a company to succeed, nor is it a right or a privilege for companies to treat their customers like criminals and expect a tax for not using their products or services.
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I use adsubtract and never see a pop up
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Your call
If as a consequence of this, your business fails then the free market society has fulfilled it's promise.
Nobody owes you anything. If pay for play falls flat, than it was meant to be. We never asked for you to put your 2 bits on the web anyway.
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