Yahoo Ads To Get More Intrusive
from the as-predicted dept
So, last night I was surprised that Yahoo was ditching ads from casinos, considering their promise to make sure their ads were more intrusive. Today, of course, Yahoo announces they've signed deals with a number of technology companies to make sure their latest ads will be as annoying as possible. The worst technology seems to be the one that "expands ad banners when a mouse cursor touches it". Does Yahoo realize that they're driving people away? I've been slowly finding replacements for just about everything I use Yahoo for, and this is only going to force me to speed up that process.
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Man I still remember back in the day when Yahoo only had the Yahoo logo and that was like the only image on the whole page.
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Wait a sec-- Google is still like that-- YAY Google!! (altavista trimmed down as well, but meta searching is a pain to use nowadays)
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Yahoo?
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Grandma is that you?
Can you imagine your grandmother trotting over to Google.com to do a Boolean search?
Plus where else can you go to find 2,000 people to spank in hearts at 10pm. Which reminds me, I have to play a card...
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