Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course
by bduerst on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:42PM
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I turned adblock off the other day to debug some chromium issues, and forgot I had left it off.
Did you know they now have video ads where you have to type the text of the product slogan if you want to skip the ad?
It's a bit annoying.
What's interesting is that advertising that doesn't concern you isn't as annoying as advertising for products that you're able to buy. I love The Daily Show, but sometimes, for some reason, it only works with AdBlock disabled.
All ads on The Daily Show are for American products not available here (fast food brands that aren't present in France, cars that don't exist here) and those ads don't bother me much -- they don't clutter my brain the way an ad for something I could buy does.