Kerrrist.

alternateorg on February 5, 2003

Someone please shut this guy up. Like with a shotgun.

While sound and sight go hand-in-hand in most mediums, until recently web publishers practically forbade advertisers from using audio in standard web advertising. Not any more.

I can barely deal with the NewsToday chime when it loads in a background tab. I can’t even imagine how awful ads with sound would be. Oh wait — yes I can… Ater using Earthlink’s portal for a few months when I was a subscriber, they added a Flash ad to the top of the main page. Every time you loaded it (which because it was a portal homepage was often) the animation started over again, including the sound. I quickly switched to my.yahoo.com.

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One Reply to “Kerrrist.”

  1. scott February 5, 2003 at 4:52 pm

    nothings better than the cluster of popups you get when searching the long way (ie, the web) for warez. imagine the cacophony one would hear if (er, when) they add sound. this is why advertising is satanic. wheres my naomi klein branded shotgun?

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