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Originally Posted by Drebbel

Try reading with your eyes, and not with you mouse

I know many years ago people blocked images in order to surf unobstructed, or would keel haul you if you quoted above the original text.. I wonder if they are still doing that.

The internet always has been full of new stuff, wanting stuff to stay like they where is difficult on the web. Eventually most people get used to the new stuff and we don't even realize it is there. On an average day I see no intellytext on the web at all, guess I know where I should click in order to see what I want.

My dad on the other hand hates those popup too, so maybe you are just getting old ?

Drebbel


PS: IE7 rulez !

PS2: And yes, it is annoying, just like banners, pop ups, and all other advertising

The problem is when I scroll across the screen after I just clicked a link and I hit a mouse over. I don't mind the advertising, and as long as its not in my face advertising, then all is well. The problem with this is, it is aggressive advertising like this. It is not too prevelent yet, but you will start to see it more and more. IGN has adopted it too now.

Just wait - the net will be flooded with it soon. Other sites I can see are:

anandtech

vnunet

Forbes - now cancelled due to user complaints

Driverheaven

(To name a few)

Several forums as of late too it seems. At least now I have a solution and it won't bother me anymore.

Here is one guys take on it:

Enough IntelliTxt already

IntelliTxt is creating something of a buzz around the blogosphere at the moment. In essense, this technology allows marketers to sponsor words or phrases within text published on the web. The idea is good in concept, but sucks in reality.

As Rafe Needleman observes, the system is open to abuse by publishers pestering their editors and reporters to use the most lucrative words - or at the very least calls into question journalistic ethics. Former Industry's Standard leader John Battelle also chimes in reporting that journalists are not happy about the service.

But aside from the industry antics, let's think about this from the online reader's perspective. When I was at InfoWorld, our business development folks launched a service called Knowledge Link (I'm pretty sure that was the name) that basically did the same thing. In essence, an advertiser like Microsoft could buy a link to every word like "server" for example. The trouble was that if a reporter used the word "server," for example, five times in a story you had five identical links.

Now, take this a step further and add two or three advertisers buying different words all within the same story. Suddenly your clean copy is littered with red or blue links. It's messy, annoying, and very soon nobody cares about them. Even worse, readers start clicking off to other sites where they can avoid the visual assault.

InfoWorld wised up to all of this pretty quickly. I'm hoping other favourite sites of mine don't go down the same path.