rant: rollover ads...

advertisements can annoy people more often than not. but this whole new wave of rollovers is annoying the crap out of me.

i've endured them for more than long enough. first ones i remember came up on ign. then yahoo started implementing them. and now, of all things, msn. ARGH.

i understand that people might not even give a damn otherwise if they hadn't accidentally rolled their mouse over the sweet spot. but honestly, it comes bloody close to spam. there's nothing more infuriating than trying to read something when you suddenly and unknowingly roll the mouse over the stupid ad. it expands and then blocks your entire freaking screen. and it doesn't help that they don't explicitly indicate a close button or even tell you how to get rid of it at all.

perhaps i wouldn't be so annoyed if they just STAYED WHERE THEY WERE. but while some funny agreement was probably included in the licence or something, it pretty much feels like an unsolicited ad, almost like spam. is it so much to ask you advertisers to not interrupt what i'm doing? the counter-argument would be for me to "be more careful with my mouse movements". but it doesn't help that no one sees the stupid "ROLLOVER FOR MORE INFORMATION" thing when they don't really know that the ad is there. grrrrrr.