KlaxonCow wrote:You know, "you should probably go out with your friends and make a night of it, as you'll have a much more enjoyable time... but should you decide to be a miserable fucker and stay indoors instead, then may we recommend to you Sky's new 'boxset' feature, where you can binge on entire seasons of your favourite TV shows?".
Conversely alcohol adverts might be forced to suggest that one should consider staying off the streets... Eventually the two would jest exchange roles and make only token gestures at their legally accepted purpose.
Prop 65 is where these things eventually end up if you allow generic disclaimers. Ad breaks would become twice as long and between each ad would be a still frame with text and a voiceover saying the same thing, to the effect of "stuff might harm you".
Not TV ads so much but those irritating in-game ads on tablet games. Particularly the ones that make you 'play' a sample of the game ('take this piece and place it here') BEFORE letting you skip it (with a very subtle timer counting down, and also the ads that have the close button in the wrong corner, as if tricking me will make me install the app AND pay money for the IAP's.
GIVE ME AN OPTION TO PAY FOR THE GAME WITHOUT ADVERTS YOU UTTERLY SADISTIC FUCKERS.
There's an advert for Nationwide, with a "poem" (that doesn't rhyme)* about loyalty.
The gist is that the "poet's" Mum used to turn her supermarket carrier bags inside-out when shopping in the local shop, because she didn't want to seem disloyal.
This is meant to make us appreciate loyalty.
She wasn't loyal, she shopped elsewhere and had the bag to prove it. She turned it inside-out because she didn't want to be seen as having been disloyal. There's no remorse shown - she probably went on to do it again - the only thing that comes across from the "poem" is that lying is a good way to cover up truths you don't want other people to know. The "poet" says she does the same thing as her Mum did, in the name of "loyalty". The lies continue...
*I'm thankful it doesn't rhyme, because I'm sure I've posted before about godawful primary school level rhymes in adverts before, but this doesn't seem even remotely poetic either to me. It's just some poorly-formatted words, basically.
I'm trying to play a Flash game on the Internet and there's ads on the page. No, I don't ad block on the site, as I'd like to support the developers (because, after all, there's barely any money in making Flash games to begin with anymore and these are often just "bedroom coders" getting into writing their first games, so I want to be encouraging).
Normally, this is okay, but every once in a while you get one of those ads that decides to eat up 90% of your CPU and ruins the gameplay. A particularly horrible one is ads that auto-play silent videos near the bottom of the page. The responsiveness nosedives and you have no idea why, so scroll down and, oh, well, that explains it. There's a bloody video being played down here, where I'm not even looking, for fuck's sake.
Well, to banish these monstrosities, I right-click and "inspect". Find the "iframe" that the ad lives in and "delete element". Ah, the beauty of browsers having built-in web development tools.
But, pulling up the inspector, the console is full of Javascript errors and the bloody scripts on these ads are still generating them while I'm looking at it.
These annoying ads aren't just badly coded in terms of how they eat CPU and ruin the performance of the whole page. No, they're actually released in a broken state that's repeatedly generating errors constantly. The console is reporting bloody syntax errors, for pity's sake.
(And it definitely is the ads doing this because when I "delete element" on those iframes, the console rightly goes deadly silent.)
Who do they contract to make these things? They should quit their jobs immediately in horrible, horrible shame.
"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
Well, it doesn't take much for JavaScript to throw an error. Mildly different browser for instance, out of date libraries. They probably run fine in ie7 when the ad script was written. But no, the likely suspect is shit code. I wouldn't' even thought an add would have much code to mess up. Are they just not calling home properly, or trying to snoop on stuff they can't access?
Just open it up on another device at the same time and Adblock the game one for guilt free enjoyment. Me, I just Adblock the shit out of everything and tell Jesus about it afterwards.
Chontler wrote:Me, I just Adblock the shit out of everything and tell Jesus about it afterwards.
Jesus is not an option for me.
Yeah, I thought as much. Even if acceptance cleanses your browser cache, saves your cpu from the flames & frees your limitless bandwidth - you remain stalwart. gotta admire the tenacity
