Reply to post: Everyone agrees the ads are crap

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Milton

Everyone agrees the ads are crap

The ads are mostly so garish, amateurish and appalling—produced by untalented, cheap labour I assume—that we're all sick of them. Someone else makes the point that the supposed "tailoring" of ads—which means bombarding you with images of something you looked at once and have already decided not to buy, or bought already—is clumsy and off-putting.

I don't suppose I'm the only one who completely tunes them out, and will immediately leave a site that starts flashing crap at me.

So in principle most people must favour the idea of making micropayments to read a site instead of having their eyeballs manured with garbage.

The current idea seems to have weaknesses, but basically the intention makes sense. And websites and advertisers ned to wake up to this, because people are generally getting more and more fed up with ads, especially the vast majority which are rubbish, and that fatigue will eventually make web advertising useless anyway.

Time to try alternatives? Of course it is.

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