All cranky as heck

This needs to stop:

Gives you chills, right?

Don’t get me wrong as I don’t mind seeing advertising on websites. I don’t use any web browser add-ons to remove ads from webpages or any other kinds of similar programs as I know ads are an essential revenue earning generator for many web publications, but some ads go way too far in annoyance and need to be banished from the Internet all together. The biggest offenders of them all are the video ads.

You’ve seen them, the ones that show a brief spinning swirl for a loading icon and then show a nonstop series of 15 and 30 second video commercials; using the Flash program and having your CPU fan turn on at its max, making your laptop screaming at you for mercy to close the browser window because it’s getting torn to shreds from the inside.

Ads are fine until they become obtrusive and get in your way from the content you’re trying to read. For these video ads, not only are they making your PC physically loud, but then they also bring your web experience to a screeching halt as it eats up system memory, causing scrolling up and down on a webpage to be shuddery or sluggish and causing pages to load very slowly.

Many websites have video ads but the one that uses them the most is usgamer (yeah, I'm calling them out). On regular occasion a webpage on their site may have two or even three of these suckers running at the same time. Add in the fact that I like to have multiple tabs open when crawling through their site and my browser ends up locking up to the point where nothing is responsive and I need to force quit the program. Most times I have to retreat from their site before I’m finished reading an article.

These video ads have been around for a while now and it’s been that same amount of time since the web experience, from a performance perspective, starting sucking. If website admins have the ability to select the types of ads that show up on their websites, then they really need to uncheck the box that allows these kinds of ads from appearing. Don’t worry, as I have no plans on placing ads on this site, so use it as a safety zone to retreat to if you ever get bombarded with ads like those.

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