You know, if they just simply kept ads to be some banner on the top and bottom of the page, maybe some image on the side that didn’t interrupt you, the most intrusive thing being that the ad may be brightly colored and animated so your eye moves to it, nobody would EVER block ads. But they brought this upon themselves.
Back in the day when Google ads initially rolled out, they billed themselves as the “ethical” version of ads because they restricted things like flashing colors, popups, etc which had gotten really bad. That was when Google’s motto was still “don’t be evil”.
You know, if they just simply kept ads to be some banner on the top and bottom of the page, maybe some image on the side that didn’t interrupt you, the most intrusive thing being that the ad may be brightly colored and animated so your eye moves to it, nobody would EVER block ads. But they brought this upon themselves.
Used to be that way, and we definitely blocked ads then too. Having seizure flashes in the corner of your eye is incredibly annoying
Back in the day when Google ads initially rolled out, they billed themselves as the “ethical” version of ads because they restricted things like flashing colors, popups, etc which had gotten really bad. That was when Google’s motto was still “don’t be evil”.
Yeah adwords were the best ads have ever been online