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EBay Advertising Idiocy Strikes Again

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

 

The most irritating thing about internet pages are the video advertisements that start up unbidden whenever you open the page.  Usually these ads involve screeching music or grating voiceovers, which provoke nothing but hatred as the viewer scrolls up and down the page to find where the stupid ad is stuck so he can turn it off (and vow NEVER to buy that product/service).  EBay in its complete lack of wisdom was destined to employ these ads eventually, and now they have, only with a typical eBay twist--you can't do a "mouse-over" enlargement to see the item in the auction without the video ad breaking through on top of what you are trying to see.  View the screen shot below to see what happened when I tried to get a closer look at a cover in an auction that had an auto-video ad embedded in it--

 

(Thanks eBay!  You guys are all a bunch of $#%@#^#&@!!!)

 

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EBay Advertising Idiocy Strikes Again

FINALLY someone said what I was thinking! This method of advertising causes my page to freeze while the darn audio continues to play!

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