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Thursday, December 16, 2004

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, December 16, 2004 Advertising techniques that Web-users hate This month, usability guru Jakob Neilsen's AlertBox column addresses the Web's most hated advertising techniques. The finding I'm most satisfied by there is that audio in an ad is viewed as being offensive on par with popups. I totally loathe any auto-playing audio on websites (sez one of Neilsen's subjects, "IF ANYTHING COULD BE WORSE THAN POP-UPS, THIS IS IT. I HATE THIS AD. HATE HATE HATE.") Link (via Pirotcar) posted by Cory Doctorow at 12:04:06 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: