What some of us object to is the big pop-up that appears about 1 second into the page-load process. The pop-up covers about 80-90% of the window and (for me at least) is blank. Presumably, if I wait long enough, some advertising pitch will appear in that pop-up. I have never waited long enough to find out, I just close the photo.net window and go on to something else.
Ads on the side, flashing banners, billboards on buses . . . all of that I can ignore. The photo.net approach which visually blocks my screen and prevents me from seeing anything while they leisurely load an ad for me to ignore, that is something with which I do not care to put up. stan On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:40 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: "Bob W" >>>> If I get on a bus that says Trafalgar Square on the front, I don't >>> > want to >>>> > > be forced to go shopping first. >>> > >>> > A fallacious argument. You won't have to go shopping, but you will see >>> > ads on the side of the bus, on the bus shelter, and perhaps on the >>> > interior of the bus as well. And if they weren't there, you'd probably >>> > have to pay twice as much to ride that bus. It's commerce in a free >>> > society, and, for the most part, it works. >>> > Paul >>> > >> OK, I'm not forced to read or avoid the ads before I can get on the bus. I >> don't strongly object to sites, or buses, carrying ads, what I object to is >> the in-yer-face intrusive approach that photo.net have taken with theirs >> which spoils the experience of looking at your photos and those of others, >> so I won't go there. >> >> I lose, you lose, photo.net loses, the advertisers lose. How can you think >> that works? > > I understand what you're saying, but I just don't see the "in-yer-face > intrusive" nature of the advertising at photo.net. > > I am not a member of photo.net, so if it's bad I should be getting the brunt > of it. Right? > > I don't see the ads, but I can see the frames where the ads are located, and > there's less advertising on the page than in the average newspaper or > magazine. There's a banner at the top, and a banner at the bottom, and on > some pages there's a box off to one side more or less in the middle. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
