Comments on: Ingenious Advertising http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:19:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6036 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:13:59 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6036 Oh... Hmm... I didn't think about linking it here. I try not to mess with the adds because Google has all these rules and terms of service that I never read. lol Oh… Hmm… I didn’t think about linking it here. I try not to mess with the adds because Google has all these rules and terms of service that I never read. lol

]]> by: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6028 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:45:44 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6028 Now I really want to know what that "don't click unless you're 18" one led to... Why no link! :shock: (those are my wide "questioning" eyes, not my wide "shocked" eyes btw) Now I really want to know what that “don’t click unless you’re 18″ one led to…

Why no link! shock

(those are my wide “questioning” eyes, not my wide “shocked” eyes btw)

]]> by: vacri http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6027 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:01:13 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6027 Probably a good thing you didn't click on it, since you're over 18. It says not to click on it unless you are 18, not over or under :) Anyway, I have a mental filter to filter out banner ads, honed over the years. Moving images in flash are blocked through flashblock, and I don't tend to frequent sites that have those annoying animated .gifs. I don't have a problem with banner ads I don't 'see', and leaving them on allows the maintainers to get some nominal revenue for my page load. Hell, once on thedailywtf.com there was a wtf that was a funny in a banner ad. I couldn't find the point of the article - I was mentally blanking the banner and unable to 'see' the image they referred to. Probably a good thing you didn’t click on it, since you’re over 18. It says not to click on it unless you are 18, not over or under )

Anyway, I have a mental filter to filter out banner ads, honed over the years. Moving images in flash are blocked through flashblock, and I don’t tend to frequent sites that have those annoying animated .gifs. I don’t have a problem with banner ads I don’t ’see’, and leaving them on allows the maintainers to get some nominal revenue for my page load.

Hell, once on thedailywtf.com there was a wtf that was a funny in a banner ad. I couldn’t find the point of the article - I was mentally blanking the banner and unable to ’see’ the image they referred to.

]]> by: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6026 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:45:38 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6026 Thanks ;) Well that's usually enough to make sure it isn't a link to some NSFW content/"shock" site etc. Thanks )

Well that’s usually enough to make sure it isn’t a link to some NSFW content/”shock” site etc.

]]> by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6025 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:37:07 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6025 Fixd! Btw, having a preview won't help in this case. You will know that it is a link to a popular service out there, but it won't tell you anything about the content. :) Fixd!

Btw, having a preview won’t help in this case. You will know that it is a link to a popular service out there, but it won’t tell you anything about the content. )

]]> by: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6024 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:05:14 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6024 Oops, something really went wrong with the link in that last comment, perhaps you could fix it for me :P Oops, something really went wrong with the link in that last comment, perhaps you could fix it for me P

]]> by: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6023 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:03:36 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/01/ingenious-advertising/#comment-6023 I tend to Adblock adverts on almost all websites, with only a few exceptions, such as my own websites, friends' blogs, etc. I'll look out for the "Do not click unless you're 18" one though ;) Have you never seen <a href="http://tinyurl.com/preview.php" rel="nofollow">tinyurl preview</a>? :mrgreen: I tend to Adblock adverts on almost all websites, with only a few exceptions, such as my own websites, friends’ blogs, etc. I’ll look out for the “Do not click unless you’re 18″ one though )

Have you never seen tinyurl preview? mrgreen

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