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Old 08-25-2010, 08:25 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
For me, at least, it would ensure that I would never again purchase an ebook, and would from then on get every book from the "darknet", where it will be available with all that garbage stripped off days or hours after publication.

Intrusive ads do two things-- they inconvenience legal users, and they drive even more people to piracy-- said pirates getting a nice, clean, superior product.
Actually, three things. Several years ago, I read an article about a new technique that allowed merely rolling over a "button" would allow it to be activated. The writer waxed poetic over the wonderful opportunities that would introduce. Sure enough, within a year, pop-up ads triggered by rolling over the ad or even a word in the text of an article, whatever, would trigger a pop-up.

I don't have a problem with ads on a website; after all they pay for the site and inform me of new products and services. I draw the line at intrusive ads, though. I have quit using sites, after telling the site users why, because the ads became so obnoxiously intrusive. I also will not use products or services of companies that use intrusive ads. Netflix has been the overall worst of the lot.
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