Thursday, May 13, 2010

Down With Flash Ads!

Fucking Flash ads. Annoying, distracting, irritating, ubiquitous Flash ads. Mother fuckers. I wish it was possible to disable this experience-killing menace. If there is a way, PLEASE leave a comment and tell me how -- besides just removing Flash because it's good to have for the enjoyable aspects of the internet, few as there are left now after the bombardment of commercialization.

Aside from the fact (or opinion) that Flash is an antiquated, performance-sucking piece of shit for a codec... But what do I know? I'm only the one that has to wait for what seems like forever for all the Flash ads to load the page before the content shows... Then once it finally does, there's all this stupid shit going on: flash flash, flick flick, some dumb bitch dancing, some actual COMMERCIAL FROM TV, or some ridiculous sound effect, and the worst offender of all... "Congratulations, YOU WON!" Like I truly believe I am the millionth visitor so just *click here* and I win a laptop. My ass. Even if it was true I still wouldn't click because that means some transaction, however small, is going on somewhere and it contributes to the scourge as a whole. I simply refuse to participate.

Then the Flash ads are all loaded up, and you're frantically searching for that one that has a prticularily annoying video playing, in hopes that there is a pause button, but by the time you've found it the ad is done playing and you've ruined the sanctity of the Dark Side of The Moon that you were listening to, which now you have to start the CD all over again because some Flash ad disrupted the intro to Run. My point? You can't always just hit mute to stave off the onslaught of Flash ubiquity.

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