the shocking sound stunts were fun to spring on people. well, for a couple days. recall ads referred to as ‘death of the internet’. adblock to the rescue.
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a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoThere was a time in the 90’s where ads were mostly banners, and that was fine; google’s text-only ads were completely acceptable.
But that didn’t last long - it went downhill with the proliferation of popups, especially the nefarious kind which created even more popups or tried to stop the user from closing them, and usage of dialog boxes.
And whoever was the first person to add sound to an ad, i wish you and your entire family tree that your genitalia translocate to your forehead.
m3t00@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Congratulations, you won
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Adds in the 90’s and 00’s would just layer toolbars onto your browser. Is still have a a nervous twitch when I see a thick toolbars or animated cursors.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The toolbars came from scam software on the '90s. Ads being able to install things came well into the '00s.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
yeah, there was quite a long time where useful software was bundled with toolbars or, the worse option, malware that hijacked your browser, which was a pain in the ass to remove. I was the techie in the family, and i got pretty good with tools like hijackthis and knowing by heart what services and background programs should start on a standard win98 or xp installation. (in this time i also was THE guy to ask at my job when issues with 56k modems came up, diagnosing a lot of issues by listening to the dial-up tones)