Posted by
Bob Siegel on Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:33:31 PM
Pop up on a computer has always been annoying. It's not as if any of us loved commercials anyway, but one that leaps into your face like a sneaky, sinister Jack in the Box makes me wonder if there isn't a special place in hell for advertisers who program such intrusive junk. I'm not sure if it reminds me of the solicitor who ambushes people outside a supermarket exit door, or some fly at a picnic who won't get out of my face.
Yes, I have had anti-pop up software installed on my computer, but I guess I need the latest updated version because the snakes seem to be crawling out of their pit again. Why I am writing about this today when there are so many more important news events going on in the world? Well, Sweet Virginia, it seems that while I try to post this blog, a car dealer ad keeps popping up with a brand spanking new feature: When my mouse hits the spot saying,"Click here to remove ad from screen" it does not actually remove the ad. Instead, I am whisked to their website faster than the cyclone blew Dorthy's modest little house to Oz. It has been happening now for weeks, enough times to see that this is not a fluke or figment of my imagination.
I suppose I should be more forgiving. I may even be guilty of judging these businessmen far too hastily. For all we know, this could be an act of compassion. Perhaps these advertisers, when asking us to visit their sites, want to offer a second chance, just in case we don't know our own minds and miss the opportunity of a lifetime. Yeah, that must be it. It's not unlike our government giving us the free health care they say we have been asking for, even though poll after poll shows that we have not asked for it and even though it's not really free. Hey, how about that? I managed to post my blog about current events after all!
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