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Never Thought About it Before

Comment comment by VnutZ on 17 March 2008

Perhaps the answer is that most of us stopped taking advertising seriously years ago, but if that is true why is it still such a big industry. I suspect that we have become desensitised, but are still willing to believe what we want to believe when we see it in commercials.

I think you're right on the money with desensitization. The way I look at it, a bogus advertisement will take me to a site, but I'll immediately disregard it upon recognizing it as chaff. Until you mentioned this, I never really thought anything of it. With the speed of the network and multiple browsers/tabs open at once, I'm not really "slowed down" by it for more than a few seconds which I believe leads exactly to the desensitization you spoke of.

Now - if I were conducting some sort of research paper and the links I followed kept taking me to spurious crap, I would be rather ticked. Though if I were researching based on ads I probably deserve it!!

It does make you wonder about the ad hosting services. Apparently, the revenue side of the house "doesn't care" about the ad itself so long as it's not infecting people when they go to the page. Or at least I assume that much.

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RE: Never Thought About it Before by Occams :: NR6

It is interesting that in a country where many believe that everything in the Bible must be literally true, they are quite content to have their entertainment interrupted by loud excited announcements that are often quite literally untrue.

Americans have been bombarded with electronic advertising since AM radio began in the 1920s. It has become one of the foundations of our commercial competitive economy and society and yet the standards for truth have diminished to invisibility. And yet, no one objects.

Why do we accept this as normal? I would like to see omnes nerdii start to scream back at these people. I have had it and I will not take it any more

Not on our web site where we have standards for the interaction of members. These terms and conditions should also be applied to those who use it to promote products and services here.

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