Flash advertising with sound on smh.com.au?!
My God!
This is so annoying. smh.com.au has started using a flash ad which plays an intrusive "glass breaking" sound.
The shockwave file is played in a loop, so you could be busy trying to concentrate on a Java implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm listening to some soothing music by Nick Drake, with a smh page open in a Firefox tab somewhere and you'd be constantly bombarded by a low quality sound byte of shattering glass. What the hell? Are these guys serious?
My God - it drives me mad. Who decided it would be a great idea to draw people's attention to some advertising by placing sound in a flash ad? Who do they think they are - a GeoCities site circa 1997?
This is the offending flash file in question. Thank god for ad blocking Firefox extensions.
2 comments:
I use a custom CSS User Stylesheet which attaches to smh.com.au and turns multi-page articles into single-page and hides the Ads... among other things.
I'm pleased to announce that the sound seems to have been taken out of this flash file :)
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