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When Web Ads Go Wrong

audio ads from hell

The above screenshot of a page from The Jersey Journal shows one of the most annoying web advertising I’ve come across in some time. Whether on purpose, or due to some insane twist of [random] fate the page in question displayed the same auto-playing video ad with audio in two ad spots on the page. Due to page load being what it is the audio was staggered by half a second or so making the unexpected audio even more obnoxious. Particularly as it was loaded in a background tab so I didn’t know where the sound was coming from at first.

The page also gets bonus points for displaying ads for police recruitment on a story about a highly decorated cop getting arrested.

More WaSP Conference Audio

I mentioned last week that audio from the WaSP Annual meeting at SxSW had been posted, well now the audio from the WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel is up too. It hasn’t yet made it to the web page so here’s a direct link to the audio from the podcast feed.

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