Comments on: 10 Most Annoying Ads and their irritating features

By: Peppino

Peppino — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:13:38 +0000

The intenet was never meant to be a vehicle to make money or as some say, to “generate revenue”. I’ve been using the internet since the early 90′s and back then, I didn’t see any advertising on it. Over time, the internet has become a sea of shit thanks to all the advertising. I sincerely hope that eventually, advertising on the internet will make no money and those who are interested in the internet only for commercialism will get the hell out, and good riddance to them, and leave people alone to use the internet the way it was meant to be.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:49:53 +0000

Popus have been the main curse on internet users since 15 years or so now… I hope they put an end to the popup advertising

By: Neeraj

Neeraj — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:53:18 +0000

These popups are their on the indiatimes mail. each time i click on t he inbox an advertising pop up comes up leaving no space for mail to compose and i have to do this always. why they do this?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:18:37 +0000

@Tip guy,
In fact, some of the context links ads are very irritating because they show ads that are totally out of context. And sometimes, the popups that appear while hovering needs to be manually clicked and closed

But I agree, they are not as bad as some of the popup types.

By: TIP Guy

TIP Guy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Ajith,

Very good observations and like the fact that it is a fresh perspective.

other than context links ads, I agree on all other irritations.

Although context links add to relatively poor reader experience, they are not intrusive. Reader still has to take action of clicking. Quality of text links comes into picture if reader clicks onto the ads. And at that point, it is same as every other aspect of the services. Even in search google may not provide exact information you are looking for…..

All others forms of advt are being forced on to the reader.

Best Wishes,

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:41:18 +0000

@Chris,
You are with the mass! Popups are major irritation for most people.

@Rahul,
As the publisher of the ads, yes, one may feel that anything is fine – but readers would just hate it if some of those most irritating things are in place.

By: Tech Buzz

Tech Buzz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:09:56 +0000

In my view, If a person is earning money from ads. Then he will never bother about what types of ads he is using.

I hate following ads most then pop up ads. Very less peoples are using following ads as compared to pop ups.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:41:11 +0000

My personal topper irritator is pop up. Jeez, I am sick of them.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:24:24 +0000

Thank you all for participating in the survey. Looks like the age old popup banners are the most annoying ad type as per the survey results. Let me try to individually answer some of the comments.

@Samrat, thanks buddy.

@Tammy, thanks for stopping by, I know I haven’t been too regular with many of your blogs Life goes on, too busy…

@Gary, You are right. As for popups (or interstitial, redirect ads) you have to take some kind of action to get rid of it where as for the content links, you have the option of not clicking it.

@Tom, yes – relevancy is the key, then comes the ad type itself.

@Rajeel, sure.. some thing that follows you without you wanting it to be, is really annoying.

@Sabari, yeah. I haven’t covered all of them but just listed those irritations that came to my mind But I thought, these mouseover ads are in general kontera or infolinks kind of content link ads?

@Tushar, you are with the mass! Popups suck big time for sure. As for the stripe ads, they are irritating when we cannot close them and/or when they make main content loading really really slow.

@Lida, thanks for the visit and comment.

@Ramesh, I understand your frustration around wrong affiliate links. I hate them too.

@Nihar, I agree about ibnlive. Also one of my favorite sites – moneycontrol.com – has too many popups and flash ads as well. Unfortunately, I like their free services and hence keep visiting despite irritation As for the content links, most of them are irrelevant ads, I thought. Don’t you think so?

@Jerry, Definitely ads money is a major aspect of blog income. However, can’t we stick to relevant ads when there’s an option to do so?

@Melvin, I hate interstitial ads too.

Looks like the my sequence in terms of irritability is not completely in line with your hate list

By: Melvin

Melvin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:51:24 +0000

A lot of them can be NOT that intrusive depending on the niche and topic.. I voted for interstitial ads because its like disrespecting the readers..

my 2 cents..

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:07:04 +0000

I wouldn’t agree with Tom (StandOutBlogger.com) as I believe certain blog ads actually create a win-win situation for both readers and blog owners. To me, ads money is actually one of the motivation for bloggers to keep providing good info and isn’t good info what most readers want?

Nice article Ajith and thanks for running this interesting poll. My votes go to redirects and popups ads.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:27:32 +0000

Do you visit ibnlive.com ?

very very bad flash ads that keeps coming up stopping us to see the news…

I am using infolinks. before i was using kontera. I don’t think in text link ads are bad.

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:14:37 +0000

While “Redirect” is really bad — mostly some low-end useless websites do that. We don’t typically visit those website on a regular basis. Sometime you go there by mistake from some junk link.

However the “#2 In content affiliate links in the wrong context” — is what I really hate for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. Once I see a website using this, I unsubscribe from their blog and will never visit again.

I would rate this (In content affiliate links) as #1.

By: Lida

Lida — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:56:24 +0000

excellent post ajith. Thanks for sharing and I just voting

By: IndianCashMaker

IndianCashMaker — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:09:23 +0000

for me, popups are the worst ads. they hamper my process of reading a post and diverts my concentration. I wonder you put stripe ads in the list. I just love them i find them the best way to grab my reader’s attention and tell them something new

By: Sabari

Sabari — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:25:14 +0000

You missed the rollover/mouseover kinda flash ads which grow into a bigger one even if you accidentally mouse over it!

By: Rajeel - The Teen Blogger

Rajeel - The Teen Blogger — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:17:58 +0000

I find the floating ads as the greatest annoying ads.They won’t allows us to read the contents and will create a negative feeling against the blog we are reading !

By: Tom - StandOutBlogger.com

Tom - StandOutBlogger.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:47:38 +0000

I wold have to say, any advertisement that doesn’t suit the blog. If you’re going tohave ad’s on your blog, atleast make them relevant.

By: Teen Blogger

Teen Blogger — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:13:54 +0000

I find pop ups really annoying. In text ads aren’t really that annoying to me because you don’t have to click them.

Overall nice informative post.

By: Tammy-Cricket

Tammy-Cricket — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Stopping by to say Hello. Your site looks great and you are still sharing such wonderful helpful hints. I hope life is great for you and the family.