The Daily Mail does some interesting stories but the web site is so annoying with pop up videos and crap that I no longer go there unless the story looks especially pertinent.
I have to spend a lot of time on the net researching product catalogs from my vendors, who have all gone to multiple non stop and un-pausable slide shows / carousels which are horribly distracting and of no value. I’m getting to where I hate the internet and am using only largely graphic free or static graphics sites such as Free Republic in my personal surfing.
Why is it companies and (some) web designers think that they can sell more products by annoying their customers? I told one supplier that unless they cleaned up their web site, I would no longer push their products to my customers because it was too annoying to spend any time on. I can usually get the same or similar products from multiple suppliers. Piss me off, I go somewhere else. Like they care - tone deaf marketing morons. Corporate America is incredibly dense.
Interesting factoid:
Front page slideshows have a less than 1% click through rate. And nearly all of those click throughs are only on the first slide. The rest of the frames get a click through rate of maybe .05%. Pretty ineffective marketing. I had a web marketing design person tell me they suggest their clients NOT to use automated slide shows and pop up videos and most of the clients still insist on it.
I am with you, hardly use the net for shopping anymore except for industrial suppliers. I despise click through “shows”.
[[The Daily Mail does some interesting stories but the web site is so annoying with pop up videos ]]
You don’t use adblock plus? it won’t prevent soem htings, but it sure does cut down on ads- helps a lot