Internet Advertising is Insulting

[NixieTube]

I wouldn't want to offend anyone by artificially inflating my post totals, so I took a week or so off.

In the meantime, I ordered a couple of new tires from the Tire Rack. I've dealt with them many times in the past and always been satisfied with their price and quality. Except this time.

I ordered a couple of tires from them and their website did NOT inform me that they would be on "unknown product hold" until *after* I had placed the order, 5 days ago. Finally today I chatted with one of their custreps and was told they'd be there this Tuesday.

OK. Maybe they were out of stock.

But what bugs me is that now, almost every single time I visit a website, they have the exact same tire, model, price served in an advertisement at the top or side of the page.

I bought the tires from these people and they couldn't deliver them on time, and now when I surf the net it's almost as though they're taunting me about it. I'm having to wait an extra week to pick up what I ordered and they're sticking it in my face.

I think it's the last time I'm buying from them. The marketing department isn't talking to the fulfillment department, that's pretty clear. They just harvest the user and blast junk back at them, even if they haven't delivered the product.

 

[NixieTube]

It's so conveniently insulting! I enjoy this Internet world more and more every day. ;)

And believe you me, I wouldn't even think for a NANOSECOND about that ;).

 

[NikA]

TOR browsing is an option if you don't want to be tracked on the internet. I've used it to get around firewalls when I'm bored or impatient. Just be prepared for some websites to send you annoying notices about their "policies" "for your security".

 

[eveled]

Clear your cookies. Then you get random adds, instead of stuff you previously searched for.

I like to clear my cookies then search for something good, that way I don't get the random adds. Which can be far worse than tire adds.

 

[Chief 101]

I use "Adblock"...not perfect but it helps with the most annoying ads...
ps. its almost embarrassing that my post count is as hi as it is...

 

[BlkHawk73]

The ads are kinda that thing right in front of you that you just don't notice. Rarely if ever pay attention to them. Never a big deal. Gotta admit though, the idea behind that was a darn good one an I'm sure as paid of dividends and then some. If they didn't work, they wouldn't be using them.

 

[gasbag]

All advertisements are insulting, irritating and, well, dumb.
My wife and I dropped cable tv because of advertising.
I won't pay a ridiculous amount of money for tv and have 1/2 of it be ads.
On the internet I have 3 ad blockers running. I haven't seen an ad for a year or so.
If it comes to where that is impossible I will drop internet too.
Nothing to me is so important that I will let greedy obnoxious people invade my life
every time I look at my screen. It's my computer. Stay out of it.
Incidentally, if I actually want a product I am not so stupid that I can't find it
all by my little ol' self without some idiot telling me their new whizbang
floor cleaner will cure 14 diseases and is also a great wax for cars.

 

[sfhogman]

Slices, dices, whips and caresses....

Gah.

 

[CoyoteHunter_]

All advertisements are insulting, irritating and, well, dumb.
My wife and I dropped cable tv because of advertising.
I won't pay a ridiculous amount of money for tv and have 1/2 of it be ads.
On the internet I have 3 ad blockers running. I haven't seen an ad for a year or so.
If it comes to where that is impossible I will drop internet too.
Nothing to me is so important that I will let greedy obnoxious people invade my life
every time I look at my screen. It's my computer. Stay out of it.
Incidentally, if I actually want a product I am not so stupid that I can't find it
all by my little ol' self without some idiot telling me their new whizbang
floor cleaner will cure 14 diseases and is also a great wax for cars.

I AGREE 100%. And we are paying to deliver the ads to OUR COMPUTERS over out Internet Connections. We have to pay a monthly fee just to be able to access the interent which they send these unwanted ads into our computers and homes.

I use CCleaner to clear the cookies that these companies leave on my computer. That way I don't have the ads targeted at my computer. I wish I could block the ads that appear on the videos that I like to watch. Every news organization that I frequent these days make me watch a stupid video commercial in front of the video that I clicked on to see. Does the ad blocker software block these video commercials too? They start up without me telling them to and then they disable the video player controls so that I can't turn them off or mute the volume on the video player. I have to either shut down the web site entirely to stop the commercial or turn off the sound on my speakers so I don't have to hear their BS propaganda sales pitch on some wiz bang contraption. There should be a law against all these ads. They should have to pay for some of my bandwidth that I get charged for by my ISP.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

I don't like those adds but about the only things I buy over the internet is gun stuff so most of the adds that I get are gun stuff and they don't bother me as much as the other stuff. The magic word here is 'stuff'. :D

 

[ChiefMuzz]

It's always funny to me that the ads pop up after I've searched for and bought something. Wish there was a "too late suckers" button to send an automatic reply to them....at least for my satisfaction.

 

[Chief 101]

I guess they think if they show you something to purchase you will buy it...not so smart they are...

 

[Rook]

If I'm watching TV and a commercial comes on I instantly change channels or mute it. I spend most of my time watching Netflix or Amazon Prime movies when I watch TV. I purchased Sirius Radio so I don't have to listen to any commercials when I'm listening to the radio while I'm driving.

 

[BearBio]

All advertising is designed for morons:

Since when do Jeeps have DNA? They don't even have cells.

"Midnight Rider" for Lincoln?

No self-respecting outlaw would ride a Harley anymore.

 

[SAJohn]

I have Add Block Plus installed on my Firefox browser. It stops much of that garbage.

 

[ChiefMuzz]

It's always funny to me that the ads pop up after I've searched for and bought something. Wish there was a "too late suckers" button to send an automatic reply to them....at least for my satisfaction.

They have to make it LOOK like they're trying to help you, or you might catch on the fact that they're simply PROFILING you and your interests.

Data mining and targeted get-out-the-vote efforts got Obama elected TWICE. This crap is serious business.


Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, etc. etc., are ALL highly linked to the Democrats and the left.

(sorry for the political tilt in 'The Lounge' but the subject and discussion requires it.)

If they really need to know that I'm looking for a new cycling computer and some bottle cages for my new Road bike, have at it.

 

[Taterman]

I use "Adblock"...not perfect but it helps with the most annoying ads...
ps. its almost embarrassing that my post count is as hi as it is...

I use it too and it works great here. It's a Firefox add-on if anyone was wondering. I use CCleaner too like CoyoteHunter said above. It's another great free product.

 

[Taterman]

I gave up on Sirius/XM over just that issue. The 'commercial free' promise began to increasingly disappear, and I found commercials popping up all over.

Kinda like cable TV. When pay TV first came out, it was pumped up as commercial-free.

 

[Rook]

I gave up on Sirius/XM over just that issue. The 'commercial free' promise began to increasingly disappear, and I found commercials popping up all over.

Kinda like cable TV. When pay TV first came out, it was pumped up as commercial-free.

The only stations I listen to are channels 5, 6, 7 and Willie's Roadhouse which is 50s, 60s and 70s music along with country on the Roadhouse and I don't ever hear any commercials on those 4 channels. If I did I would drop it too.

 

[ChiefMuzz]

They have to make it LOOK like they're trying to help you, or you might catch on the fact that they're simply PROFILING you and your interests.

Data mining and targeted get-out-the-vote efforts got Obama elected TWICE. This crap is serious business.


Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, etc. etc., are ALL highly linked to the Democrats and the left.

(sorry for the political tilt in 'The Lounge' but the subject and discussion requires it.)

If they really need to know that I'm looking for a new cycling computer and some bottle cages for my new Road bike, have at it.

...and the posts you make on a gun forum. :wink:

Those two things, together, mark you as a 1% er, who's no doubt selling drugs on the side. :lol:

Their conclusions don't have to be correct - they just have to support their objectives.

There's so many other things in life for me to worry about other than my tinfoil hat not being shiny enough.