{"id":181,"date":"2008-09-25T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-05-04T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T06:54:08","slug":"drawing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Drawing the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never had much of a beef with advertising on websites. Providing  good content usually costs money, and I can respect the fact that people  need to support themselves and their work.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even  particularly mind the sites that use underlined text with little ads  that pop up when you roll your mouse over them. I don&#8217;t see it as  particularly well targeted advertising, since what pops up usually isn&#8217;t  even relevant to the article.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have to draw the line  somewhere. I was just reading an article on Anandtech, and I  accidentally rolled my mouse over some underlined text. But instead of  the usual ad box, an entire window with full video and audio popped up.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AND  IT STARTED PLAYING ALL BY ITSELF!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care how much  money that crap makes for your website. That is so completely  inappropriate, I have no words.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley5.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Anandtech did redeem itself, though. I was looking for a place to submit a  complaint about those ads, and there is an option to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/siteinfo.aspx?intelli=y\" target=\"_blank\">turn  them off entirely<\/a>. Furthermore, it actually works!  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley0.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never had much of a beef with advertising on websites. Providing good content usually costs money, and I can respect the fact that people need to support themselves and their work. I don&#8217;t even particularly mind the sites that use underlined text with little ads that pop up when you roll your mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}