Re: Advertising and ad technology
"Maty Matyszak" <matyszak_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I've been lurking this board for a while now, and would like to find the
> opinion of its users on a discussion I have just had with a student. This
> student commented that on the sites she uses almost all the
> flash/activeX/javascript presents is advertising. Most of the content she
> needs is static html. By browsing with all scripting turned off she gets
> what she wants with almost no intrusive advertising.
>
> I've just tried it, and you know, she's right. If this catches on, the
> implications could be interesting ...
A fairly high percentage of sites I visit utilize JavaScript for
functionality that I would consider critical or nice to use. While
disabling JS would certainly cut down on the popup/popunder ads I see, it
would also break much of the functionality I'd rather have available to me.
So this strategy may work well, but only for people who visit sites which
don't use JS for something critical (and there are plenty that do). If I
wanted to eliminate popups and popunders without crippling other JS code,
I'd use one of the many software packages that are designed to do just that.
--
Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/
Received on Mon Oct 07 2002 - 17:50:28 CDT
