Dear Livejournal,
Apr. 20th, 2010 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingswordThe advertisements are getting larger, more numerous, more flashy, and the pop-up ads more laggy to load. Please tell your advertisers to DIAF.
Friends, I am thinking of moving to blogger (behold the power of google!) or maybe InsaneJournal and just using this to check my friendslist for everybody who can more easily filter out the increased pace of force-fed consumerism.
Making Livejournal into a high-profit venture has had it's problems with censorship and user unfriendly policies, but the part that's currently killing it for me is the ads. It's not that any of the advertisements are offensive, it's just that there are so many of them and now they are on every page I use.
I don't come here to be sold things to. I come here to relax and connect, and people flickering moving ads at me from my peripheral vision is not relaxing. It interrupts my connection with the posting format. The pop-ups frustrate me with having to wait for them to load the exit button on them because the coding is either clumsy or deliberately slowed to make you more likely to watch the stupid advertising.
Bad job all around, really.
Friends, I am thinking of moving to blogger (behold the power of google!) or maybe InsaneJournal and just using this to check my friendslist for everybody who can more easily filter out the increased pace of force-fed consumerism.
Making Livejournal into a high-profit venture has had it's problems with censorship and user unfriendly policies, but the part that's currently killing it for me is the ads. It's not that any of the advertisements are offensive, it's just that there are so many of them and now they are on every page I use.
I don't come here to be sold things to. I come here to relax and connect, and people flickering moving ads at me from my peripheral vision is not relaxing. It interrupts my connection with the posting format. The pop-ups frustrate me with having to wait for them to load the exit button on them because the coding is either clumsy or deliberately slowed to make you more likely to watch the stupid advertising.
Bad job all around, really.