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  • 03-06-2012 3:56am
    #1
    southcentralts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭


    which do you hate more the 3-5 minutes of ads on TV during your favorite show or the constantly popping internet ads ( especially during a youtube video)?

    My vote is for the internet ads. Feel like i'm playing whack-a-mole constantly closing internet ad boxes.


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  • #2
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I'm watching a TV show at a nice volume, just right

    Ads come and BOOM, lift me out of it

    Jacking up the volume will get my attention, attention to never buy your products


  • #3
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I avoid TV ads and I use Opera with an inbuilt pop up blocker. So, neither of those? When I go to the cinema, on the other hand. That and ads that are built in to sites (not pop ups) are the ads I encounter. So, the only ones that bother me are the cinema ones, tbh.

    Edit: Addendum - YouTube videos have recently gotten advertising of a bad sort. In a lot of videos.


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    How else would I know what stupid shit to buy if there was no ads?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I'm watching a TV show at a nice volume, just right

    Ads come and BOOM, lift me out of it

    Jacking up the volume will get my attention, attention to never buy your products


    Never understood the point in that tactic. Everyone I know just ends up muting the TV altogether (making the advertisements effectively useless).


  • #6
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    I avoid the issue by not watching telly. Its all online these days anyway. Also internet ads are easy to zap. ;)


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  • #7
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    I avoid the issue by not watching telly. Its all online these days anyway. Also internet ads are easy to zap. ;)

    Unless they are before a video like many are doing now. Skip after 15sec.


  • #8
    Pdfile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    that advert with the women ( technically, as she sounds like a tranny and dresses like one too ) from the sofa advert screaming come on ireland we'll give you the room free etc...


    just goes to prove that medical science can fix you're sexual prefference but not you're lisp.


  • #9
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I am constantly singing "from little things, big things grow" but I dont know what it is advertising.


  • #10
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    If there were no ads on You Tube it would not be free


  • #11
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    But if their were no ads on Telly, how would we get to see such beauties add this:





    Admit it, your all dancing round the living rooms now singing with yer man!


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  • #12
    Pat Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭Pat Star


    I don't have a TV and block internet ads. So neither of those.


  • #13
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    I hate it when on some videos when you close the ad at the bottom another one that is the same appears on the top right of the video


  • #14
    falan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    I have adblocker on whilst online, I record anything i want to watch on tv using Skyplus then just skip all the adverts. Its not so bad..


  • #15
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    southcentralts wrote: »
    which do you hate more the 3-5 minutes of ads on TV during your favorite show or the constantly popping internet ads ( especially during a youtube video)?

    My vote is for the internet ads. Feel like i'm playing whack-a-mole constantly closing internet ad boxes.
    Download and install 'Adblock Plus'. I never see an ad while I'm browsing since I installed it on Firefox.
    Ads are a pox on humanity.


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