20111024

Yo Dawg

To make money websites with videos will use advertisements. Generally these take the form of an advertisement you must watch before the video can load, or some sort of banner ad which appears over the video itself in a corner or a the bottom.

I just had both happen at once, an ad for a restaurant which also had a banner advertising the very same restaurant pop up to obscure the ad.

Insert appropriate meme here.

2 comments:

360 Trooper said...

Obstructive advertising? In my streaming video? It's more likely than you think.

Anonymous said...

The worst part is when you sit through a 30 second ad and the video you're trying to watch fails to load so you have to sit through the same 30 second ad again... and again... and again... then the ad itself fails meaning no video... then the video loads when you weren't expecting it to so you can't pause in time and there's no rewind button and manual attempts to rewind always bring it to 0:07 so you have to reload and...
-Andrew