Web site thumbnail infestation
April 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Bizarre, Rants | 1 Comments
Over the past few years, web sites are making use of as many ways as possible to force an income based on revenue streams from advertising.
This is fair enough, a lot of time and energy goes into writing articles that are worth reading.
Google ads and affiliate banners to name a few.
As users, we have now built up a blind spot to such ads despite what some bloggers claim to be making a month. Not to mention ad blocking tools such as Greasemonkey and Adblock for Firefox which have become the most effective ways to block the majority of online advertising.
I can just about cope with what site owners need to creatively do get us to notice the ads, but there is one technique that is becoming extremely troublesome and damn right annoying. They are the ones where when you mouse over a site, it pops up a thumbnail version of the site that the link points to.
AARRGGHH! Does having the ability to see a blurry, out of date thumbnail shot of the site prior to clicking on the link help in any way? For me, it has the opposite affect. It stops me from visiting the site purely as a result of its annoyance factor.
Not only that but the strain it puts on your browser has often required a process kill within the task manager. What prompted me to have this rant?
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