Quote: fopdoodle @ 24th June 2016, 12:18 AM BSTPop-ups. An old grievance I know, but am a tad miffed they are still so prevalent, because has any pop-up ad in the history of the internet ever successfully generated any business or sale whatsoever?
Same applies to emails generated automatically upon making a purchase from a website so you have to "unsubscribe" which is not always made that easy. And why does it take over a week in some cases? My inbox was filling up with this crap from one outfit several times every day so had to spend a lot of my valuable time manually deleting all of it, then deleting again - none of which had been read, as it's the equivalent to someone approaching you in the street and saying "buy this!" in your face, then saying "I've also got this" and "what about this too?".
All this sort of marketing does is make you associate the company doing it with irritation and contempt, so makes you avoid altogether . . . and if I am inclined to entertain the idea of purchasing a pistol shaped condiment set, that's what search engines are for (when's DaButt's birthday? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gun-Salt-Pepper-Cruet-Set-Novelty-Gift-Ceramic-Black-White-Boxed-/172221020996)
Even more worse than pop ups are pop unders. The ads you don't know are there until you close down your browser windows and have no idea where they came from. They just anger people and only a clueless moron would use them for marketing so I make sure my browser blocks them. pop unders are the underhanded and decietful tactics of internet marketing.
I completely agree that they are more likely to make someone avoid a website than do the call to action out of annoyance alone. Something almost as bad are buisness cards with generic domains like @gmail.com or @btinernet.com instead of a unique domain. These days it's so cheap to host your own website and so important for generating buisiness there is no excuse so going with a free service or one included by your ISP can make it look cheap. Unless you know the tricks to disguise it which I learnt when I hosted some domains on the AOL Hometown service. I used the free hosting space on AOL to FTP the website files and the control panel of the domain host to set up URL forwarding which resulted in a website that looked professional but was made with free hosting and a £10 domain registration.
