“Lower My Bills” drives me nuts
Author of this post: Scott Chappell | About Blog Authors »
This post is nothing more that a cry for help..for empathy. Have you seen the “Lower My Bills” tile ads. These ads are everywhere! As pervasive as the Giggle IQ test. You’ve seen the newest one right…the silhouetted dancing guy in a suit shaking his hips like Elvis. They are built in Flash. They are awful, ugly, poorly designed from a purely aesthetic perspective…they are today’s “Punch the Monkey” ad.
And, importantly, they exist because of credit card debt since they are selling dept consolidation. Is there any way we can clean up our web world of these kinds of eyesores? (The correct answer is: no.) And beyond the topic of design, the savings rate in the USA is negative. Yes, Americans spend more than they save. I guess that’s what trickle down economics means.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I love those ads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 17th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I HATE THOSE ADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Had enough of those moronic ads with the line-dancing cowboy & the rooftop couple? I sure have, but I don’t want to disable Flash since I’m a daily YouTuber.
Here’s the easiet way to rid yourself of them on a mac:
Change to root user–or use sudo–and vi into your etc/hosts file. Add this entry to the file:
127.0.0.1 [tab key] ad.doubleclick.net
(this also works on a PC in the System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file):
Save the file and enjoy the visual quietude.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Whine if you must, but these people are helping thousands of folks each day. sure the ads may be querky, but they are not trying to rip people off like some of those other guys.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
They catch my attention, but not in a good way. I will Never use thier service. EVER.
The newest one, a human in a dress????? dancing (can’t tell any more than that, gender appears male though) it’s irritation beyond tolerance.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Thanks Bill, editing the hosts file worked like a charm. I absolutely despise those ads.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:19 am
There is nothing I hate more in my daily routine than logging onto weather.com to check my local hourly forecast and being assaulted by an obnoxious woman in a pink dress dancing around like an idiot. I absolutely hate these ads! Marketers need to understand that a lot of people, such as myself, will go out of there way not to use their product if the advertisement is annoying and terrible. I often go to the extent of closing my right eye or blocking out the portion of the screen with the dancing woman in order to check the weather without her interference. Why, weather.com must you force this upon me?!?!
March 9th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Yep, I really have a disdain for spammy ads.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:12 am
I love the dancing woman! Does anyone know how I can find her??
April 27th, 2008 at 2:13 am
I love the dancing woman! Does anyone know how I can find her?