{"id":6680,"date":"2015-03-05T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:06:13","slug":"noisy-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6681\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_.png\" alt=\"300px-Audio-volume-high.svg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/300px-Audio-volume-high.svg_-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Notice to Web advertisers: If you stick a video on a Web page\u00a0that starts with blaring noise in the middle of the night, the only thing you accomplish is that I close the bleeping page in a mad panic, and I make sure never to visit it again.<\/p>\n<p>Moments ago, this is what happened when I visited a page on the Montreal Gazette&#8217;s Web site, trying to read an article, only to have a car commercial start without any interaction on my part, at maximum volume.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what car was being advertised. I don&#8217;t even care. I just swore and scrambled to click the Close button.<\/p>\n<p>This is unpleasant even during the day, insanely annoying late at night when you worry about waking up family members, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that one day, the idiots who believe this form of advertising is appropriate will all have their eardrums pierced in a most painful manner by excessive noise.<\/p>\n<p>It appears though that I am not alone: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/research-study-finds-loud-website-124600885.html\">there is a study<\/a> suggesting that such loud ads are bad for business.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, against my better judgment, I just decided to install <a href=\"https:\/\/adblockplus.org\/en\/\">AdBlock Plus<\/a> on Chrome. Let&#8217;s see if it works as advertised.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6680' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice to Web advertisers: If you stick a video on a Web page\u00a0that starts with blaring noise in the middle of the night, the only thing you accomplish is that I close the bleeping page in a mad panic, and I make sure never to visit it again. 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