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Advertisers abused the hell out of us back in the early days of the Internet and we haven't forgotten. Multiple Pop-ups, pop-unders and seizure-inducing banner ads.
If they simply stuck with small, basic, non-flashing banners, I could have handled it. But greed knows no limits with advertisers.
I certainly do lot miss the days when I'd go onto a website covered in ads for cheap, garbage MMOs... And then suddenly hear random music really fucking loudly. Scrambling to figure out where it's coming from I'd find 4 or 5 smaller windows has opened up behind my main browser window.
And yet, it's the biggest players that do the most vile stuff, Apple and Amazon both have done so much shady shit with advertising.
Yep, they brought it upon themselves, I still remember as a kid falling for a "you are the visitor number 1 million" and getting a virus; and now we have porn and cults advertising on youtube, nothing changed.
Honestly I wouldn't even mind some basic banner flashing, i.e. not neon fucking strobe and plastered over everything. I can understand them wanting to get a little bit of an eye catch. But not all of the ads can be like that and not with pop-ups and shit.