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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Dear Marketing Person,
When your pop-up ad blocks the web site I'm in the midst of reading, it does not make me want your product/service. No. Oh, no. Instead, it makes me hate you like acid and fire. Not the product/service (well, that too), but YOU. Personally.
How much of your company's money did you spend to generate such animus?
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OHEMGEE, yes.
I'm that way with cooking blogs that harass me and chase me with unwanted videos, popup ads, those thingies at the bottom (thirds?), and all that.
If I can't
immediately and easily see a way to put those down/away, that's it. I'll never come back. I won't click your affiliate links, on purpose. It's ...infuriating. They wanna pop up that "third" thing (or whatever it is)?
Fine. We all gotta eat, but BYGOD, then
you better let me instantly and immediately put it AWAY for the rest of my damned visit. Pop it up 5x more, and NOPE (once more, really for me, but I'm remarkably intolerant), that's it for you and me.
There are about two,
total, on-the-net cooking blogs that are
actually unique, where I would honestly go back, even grinding my teeth about it--every other cooking blog known to The Internet is just re-spewing someone
else's cooking and recipe ideas. I can find whatever you are peddling, someplace else that will be more respectful of me as a visitor.
I'm not asking for NO ads, no videos, no thirds--but have the decency to let me put them away and ENJOY your site, if it's not too much to ask. (I also really dislike that cooking-blog-network thing that has the floating hearts and stuff? AGHGHGHGHGH!)
Hitch