May 05, 2008
Fake Mexican Beer Takes Over Philly.com
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Yes, once again Philly.com has been overrun by advertisements, this time for Miller Chill, some sort of light Corona-like beer. (Happy Cinco de Mayo!) The front page pretty much has all the hallmarks of annoying Internet ads (sans pop-ups): Flash ads that take over your screen, that change in size, that are incredibly distracting, etc. Although I didn't see it on my page, I'd like to thank The Illadelph for the photo of the revised dot in Philly DOT com above.
In case you're wondering, things like this are why Adblock Plus was invented.
Posted by D-Mac on May 5, 2008 09:36 AM
Posted to Advertisements
, Miller Chill
, Philly.com
, WTF
Comments
right, the NYT has never engaged in any on-line nonsense. they are poster child for taking a little too long to figure out how to get the internet right. that said, they have made lots of improvements....up until yesterday when my wife called to cancel our print subscription and they lied to her and said that our on-line subscription would be canceled along with the print subscription. When they heard me screaming in the background they quickly corrected themselves and said oh its archive only. Uh huh, nice try, you lying liars!!!
Posted by: nipsey russell at May 5, 2008 12:37 PM
We simply never go to philly.com, as we read actual newspapers like The Times. Well actual newspaper websites. The daily newspapers here in hell are not even worthy of training a puppy on. We could never imagine The Times engaging in such nonsense.
Posted by: N. W. C. Fields at May 5, 2008 10:13 AM