LJ becoming evil? : comments [Matthew's Journal]

"oblivious" in the "do not read" sense not "do not see" sense, clearly.

doesn't anyone except IE users have scripts to filter these things off their browser view these days?

Thee and me do, but we're a minority of not-MSIE, and MSIE users may well still be a majority (I'm loathe to conclude anything based on User-Agent).

If the majority were using ABP or similar we'd see more of an arms race between the junk peddlers and the anti-ad tools than there is.

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I am (generally) oblivious to ads in the sense that if you close the window I

a) probably won't know what the ads were for
and
b) may even not have noticed the presence of still-image adverts

But I don't like animated ads, because flashing boxes in the corner of my vision are distracting and make it harder to focus on the things I actually want to see/read.

I note that LJ have now come as close as marketing-speak ever does to saying "maybe we did this wrong".

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