A great lesson in economics: If a business has success with a particular marketing method, they will keep doing it as long as it is profitable. Who is clicking on these ads? You would have to be the most reprehensible kind of idiot to click one of these ads. I know that they work, because companies keep hiring programmers to make them. Here are some of the ads that keep popping up.
"Congratulations! You're the ten millionth visitor! You win a Hawaiian Island!"
I have been the millionth visitor on at least ten thousand sites, sometimes twice in the same week. Never mind the "impossible to do" part, why would a website give you something simply for clicking a link? Yet, this ad must be working, because it's very popular. I bet Billy Bob is still putting in his credit card number, which of course won't be charged, it's for information purposes.
"Increase your size with no side effects!"
I imagine they aren't talking about the size of my biceps. How many people on this planet are dissatisfied with their....ummm....never mind. Where are the products that do have side effects, and what are these side effects? Elongated nose? Why do they have to tell me there are no side effects? How many people have taken the drugs that do have side effects and are looking for drugs without side effects from pop-up ads on the internet? Must be quite a few, because I keep seeing it. I'll take my chances with what I have.
"Click here for a free Xbox 360!"
My gut instinct tells me that the Microsoft corporation isn't going bankrupt, yet their product is available for free all over the internet, along with every other electronic product that is desirable to the 12-30 age group. I might buy it if they were giving away Sega Dreamcast consoles or Betamax tape players, but my keen intellect tells me that companies don't just reward you with what you would pay hard earned money for in exchange for.....NOTHING!
"Someone in Minneapolis has a crush on you!"
This person must be a telepath if they are leaving me a message on a website I have never visited. Who is this person that says "Hey, I might actually have a friend if I click this link!" Apparently there are plenty because people keep doing it. I don't want a telepath girlfriend, she would know when I was thinking about Scarlett Johannson instead of her.
"You won a new Ford Focus!"
If I won a Ford Focus, I would truly enjoy it. I always wanted to drive a brand new car into a brick wall, which is exactly what I would do with a Ford Focus. I'll just put it out of it's misery before I'm stranded on the side of the road by this POS car I got for free. If they wanted to pique my interest for a half a second, they might consider saying that I won a Lamborghini Murcielago . At least I really would want one of those, but something tells me that visiting a site that is free to enter will not win me a Ford Focus or even a Ford Pinto with no transmission and the original tires with shrubs growing out of them. If they told me that I could pick up my Pinto in the trailer park where the owner of this website lives and that I should bring a tow truck, I might believe that. I bet Billy Bob is still filling out "free offers" to obtain his Ford Focus. Only 3978 more to go, if you buy a half million dollars worth of junk from their sponsors.
I want to meet these idiots that make pop-up ads profitable, and knock their one remaining tooth out so I don't have to be bombarded with pop-ups and stupid banners every time I surf the web. Die, Morans! DIE!
"Congratulations! You're the ten millionth visitor! You win a Hawaiian Island!"
I have been the millionth visitor on at least ten thousand sites, sometimes twice in the same week. Never mind the "impossible to do" part, why would a website give you something simply for clicking a link? Yet, this ad must be working, because it's very popular. I bet Billy Bob is still putting in his credit card number, which of course won't be charged, it's for information purposes.
"Increase your size with no side effects!"
I imagine they aren't talking about the size of my biceps. How many people on this planet are dissatisfied with their....ummm....never mind. Where are the products that do have side effects, and what are these side effects? Elongated nose? Why do they have to tell me there are no side effects? How many people have taken the drugs that do have side effects and are looking for drugs without side effects from pop-up ads on the internet? Must be quite a few, because I keep seeing it. I'll take my chances with what I have.
"Click here for a free Xbox 360!"
My gut instinct tells me that the Microsoft corporation isn't going bankrupt, yet their product is available for free all over the internet, along with every other electronic product that is desirable to the 12-30 age group. I might buy it if they were giving away Sega Dreamcast consoles or Betamax tape players, but my keen intellect tells me that companies don't just reward you with what you would pay hard earned money for in exchange for.....NOTHING!
"Someone in Minneapolis has a crush on you!"
This person must be a telepath if they are leaving me a message on a website I have never visited. Who is this person that says "Hey, I might actually have a friend if I click this link!" Apparently there are plenty because people keep doing it. I don't want a telepath girlfriend, she would know when I was thinking about Scarlett Johannson instead of her.
"You won a new Ford Focus!"
If I won a Ford Focus, I would truly enjoy it. I always wanted to drive a brand new car into a brick wall, which is exactly what I would do with a Ford Focus. I'll just put it out of it's misery before I'm stranded on the side of the road by this POS car I got for free. If they wanted to pique my interest for a half a second, they might consider saying that I won a Lamborghini Murcielago . At least I really would want one of those, but something tells me that visiting a site that is free to enter will not win me a Ford Focus or even a Ford Pinto with no transmission and the original tires with shrubs growing out of them. If they told me that I could pick up my Pinto in the trailer park where the owner of this website lives and that I should bring a tow truck, I might believe that. I bet Billy Bob is still filling out "free offers" to obtain his Ford Focus. Only 3978 more to go, if you buy a half million dollars worth of junk from their sponsors.
I want to meet these idiots that make pop-up ads profitable, and knock their one remaining tooth out so I don't have to be bombarded with pop-ups and stupid banners every time I surf the web. Die, Morans! DIE!
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