… that the latest twist on web advertising — the dynamic image that (temporarily) imposes itself in front of the page content <\/i>— is without a doubt the <\/i>most incredibly annoying thing yet, from an industry (web advertising) which has come up with a lot of annoying things.<\/p>\n
For an example, go to the TV Guide page cited below, then click on the link for the Greatest Show Ever. The Zyrtec ad comes alive and blocks most of the page, like some idiot in a sandwich sign interposing himself as you try to get into a movie. Unfortunately, while you can punch the idiot with a sandwich sign in the nose, you can’t do anything with the web ad until it finishes running and returns control of your web page to you.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how it works. I don’t care. (Well, actually, I do want to know how it works, but that’s beside the point.) I just want someone <\/i>to come up with a tool to block <\/i>them. Now<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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