Your opinion on online ads?

[Cunechan]

they bought something due to an ad?

Nope. But when Amy showed these ads about these cute animal plushies I wanted to buy them (but I have no money anyway). They were hella cute xD

I think the only thing ads really work for is that you eventually remember the product or the brands name and when you're shopping and see this you're like "Ahh I know that brand. Their ads are shitty and annoying D:<" or something like that

 

[Demonboy75]

Can anyone even remember the last time they bought something due to an ad?

I actually had no clue that The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes was a thing until I saw it in an online ad. I don't own it yet, but I plan to buy it in the future. Does that count?

 

[HotfireLegend]

I actually had no clue that The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes was a thing until I saw it in an online ad. I don't own it yet, but I plan to buy it in the future. Does that count?

Yeah.

I have never seen that ad...

 

[Demonboy75]

Yeah.

I have never seen that ad...

It was likely you wouldn't have seen it. I think I only saw it once before it stopped running.
Kind of weird, isn't it?

 

[Phil]

As long as it is not adwares and appropriate, I think ads are great way to support developers, author, etc.

 

[Macro]

The ads get worse every day. The 5..4...3..2..1... ads I'm seeing lately are making me straight up ban their sites from my computer. The dating ads in particular also infuriate me. Online dating ads are going to far almost everwhere now.

Even worse when they "assume" you want to look at ads because you happened to Google something slightly relevant to it. Googled some kind of skin disease recently? Say hello to disgusting look skin cancer ads. This is thanks to the site crawling all over your saved cookies.

I do however enjoy intelligent ads like how Amazon does it. You can make your own list of preferred ads. If I say, bought Fire Emblem, it will recommend more 3DS JRPGs like 7th Dragon Code to me. If I bought Pokémon plush, it will recommend Pokémon Sun/Moon. Those ads do their job well, and does encourage me to shop more for products I might have missed. :)

Sadly the majority of sites just spam you with junk that you don't care about. Those are the ads that I will continue to block with https://adblockplus.org/elemhidehelper and http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm.

 

[Amysaurus]

I love online ads so much I use two ad-blockers.

That said, if I think a site/creator deserves the revenue, I'll set them not to run on those sites/videos/etc.

 

[Cunechan]

I hate when ads are like "Go and buy life is strange!" And I'm just like "Dude i own that game noww go away please"

Or this here. It's a no-no. I'm not even American

 

[Companion Wulf]

Or this here. It's a no-no. I'm not even American

Here too, politics does NOT interest me because in the end they're all the same and I don't want that mediacratic BS shoved in my face! Haha! (This is even despite the fact that my other half is American and I'm working towards moving there. I'm just interested in HER not a pyshopath and a narcissist running for power. Yet that kind of advert in particular is everywhere.)

 

[Cunechan]

@Companion Wulf lol ikr. Currently i got the feeling that every government fails anyway. However, look at what else Im getting here

Are they assuming I'm bald? Ruuude xD

 

[Isaac The Red]

Depends on the ad usually. As a general rule, an unobtrusive ad doesn't bother me. It doesn't actively sway my likelyhood on buying a good or service. But it doesn't make me NOT want to buy it either. Pop up ads, noisy ads, overly flashy ones, and hidden 'on click' event ads that bring you a pop up or to a new page alltogether for clicking anywhere on a page or even clicking on what normally would be a link to someplace you want to go but get hijacked by the code in a border ads js waiting for an onclick event to happen anywhere on the page... those ads make me angry, they aggrivate me and make me far less likely to want to support a product that can't be tasteful with their advertising. Same goes for the websites that don't moderate and keep control over their adspace. I'm less likely to visit those sites, and if I need to go there, far more likely to disable javascript and use adblockers to make the experience tolerable.

 

[hbn]

I don't mind banner ads that are done properly, but I detest popups and full page ads. My local paper's website is notorious for it. I would never go there without an adblock. It is a nightmare on a tablet. You open it, scroll down, about 30 seconds later it pulls you back to the top, throws a full page ad in your face with the cross light grey on a white background in a corner. If you even manage to hit that and close the thing, you scroll down and then it has another drop down ad.

I do understand that ads are, not considering donations or subscriptions, the best way for a site to generate money and that but it has to be done properly. I rank them as annoying as autoplay videos and ads with sound on.

They need to be unobtrusive but they are the reason I unashamedly use Adblock and no amount of moaning from websites will convince me otherwise until they're more responsible. I have checked the "allow some non-obtrusive advertsing" to let some get through but I still haven't noticed any.