These types of ads are the worst thing ever.

Ads that use the words "One weird trick to ____," and "______ hate her," really make me angry, hell I've even seen them on Giantbomb from time to time. I don't know what it is exactly that makes me so angry when I see them but I literally can't stand them and will close out the site I'm looking at immediately. They are literally starting to pop up everywhere which means people click on them, but who are these people?

There so terrible and snake oil salesmen like I'm honestly shocked they are effective.

People who wants to go down 3 pounds a week using 1 weird old tip?

Haven't come across them despite not using ad block in the the sites I regularly visit. Maybe I just haven't noticed them.

Only stupid people fall for shit like that, methinks. I used to see them all the time, too. I'd just roll my eyes and ignore them. Then I found out I could install Chrome at work. That plus Adblock and I hadn't seen that ad for like eight months until you just posted it here.

I do tend to react severely negatively to poor sites even with Adblock enabled. If a site wants me to click through four pages to read an entire article, then I'll usually just close the page instead of clicking though.

Maybe I'm not the best person to judge how effective these ads are, though. Through careful cynicism training and years of disappointment, I feel like I've got at least a partial immunity to most forms of advertising.

who are these people?

and whats the deal with corn nuts?

/seinfeld

I think the worst ads ever are ones that play infront of videos that fail to load then play again when you reload the video because it was broken. The CBC and Blip are particularly big offenders. I watched the same fucking UPS ad 6 times yesterday because a video player was broken.

Youre just jealous because youre not the millionth site visitor 

No, the worst adds are the Lysol and Bic Shavers adds that auto play every ten minutes on a loop when I watch anything of length on youtube. Drives me nuts and its the thing that finally pushed me to get this otherwise useless addblock.

I don't understand the ___ hate this person phenomenon. Maybe it's targeted to douche bags.

Worst ads ever? Clearly you have never seen the Taco Bell "Jumbaco!" commercial. But yeah, those ads are pretty awful.

@Irvandus said:

I don't understand the ___ hate this person phenomenon. Maybe it's targeted to douche bags.

That one I haven't seen yet. The other one is definitely annoying, but it's about the same as those "Click the ___ to win a free iPod!" type ads.

PLASTIC SURGEONS HATE HER. THE SECRET TO GETTING RID OF WRINKLES.

Adblock Plus. Changing your life, man.

Trainers hate him. He weighs 185 and can bench 450, etc. Haha.

Adblock man you'll never see them.

@PeasantAbuse said:

PLASTIC SURGEONS HATE HER. THE SECRET TO GETTING RID OF WRINKLES.

This 70 year old woman from (a town near your location) has discovered a trick to look 20.

Adblock plus is free.

Seriously, I installed it two weeks ago and I haven't seen hardly any ads since, plus everything on the internet loads faster. If I'm not mistaken, I still have to deal with Youtube ads before some videos, but that's about it.

I'm always wondering about this too, who clicks on these, or who clicks on ads on the internet in general? I also wonder how big a % of the clicks from people clicking them by mistake.

Ron Jeremy wants you to buy his pills.

What is ads? Use Adblock.

Seriously if you are taken in by any of these and aren't really old / mentally disabled you deserve to get ripped off.

That ad is a high converting ad, plain and simple. You see it often because middle aged women click on it all the time, just let it go. Use adblock if you don't want to see them.

I've always wondered what they're actually advertising, but I've been too afraid to click.

@nrh79 said:

@PeasantAbuse said:

PLASTIC SURGEONS HATE HER. THE SECRET TO GETTING RID OF WRINKLES.

This 70 year old woman from (a town near your location) has discovered a trick to look 20.

I wish! That would allow me to WANT TO bang more chicks my own age. In 2112 when upper-middle-class people can look 20 forever it will really make dating harder. You'll be talking to your friend and you say, "I met this super cute person yesterday...we're going out this Saturday!!" And you friend will say, "Yeah my great grandmother said she invited you over for tea...watch out the last person she had over FOR TEA woke up three days later tied to her bed."

YO YOU WANNA GET LAID CLICK HERE AND FIND OUT THE SECRET THAT MAKES THE LADIES THINK YOUR PRETTY FLY (for a white guy)

The only ads I found annoying were those interactive ones from a year or two ago -- maybe they're still around, I dunno. If you wanted to watch a video at certain sites, not only did you have to watch the entire ad, but if you do not "interact" with it (like push the Lysol spray bottle to kill germs), it will idle for several seconds until it does it automatically. So either wait ten more seconds, or feel like an idiot for doing what the ad wizards want.

"Derp, I helped kill the bacteria goblins on the toliet. Derp."

I'm always left wondering what advertiser gave their six year old a crayon and told them to do their parent's job for them.

Ad block installed, can't believe it took this long.

@nrh79 said:

@PeasantAbuse said:

PLASTIC SURGEONS HATE HER. THE SECRET TO GETTING RID OF WRINKLES.

This 70 year old woman from (a town near your location) has discovered a trick to look 20.

*Insert image of a woman peeling glue off her face.*

You think those are bad? Taste some Montanan country fried BULLSHIT!!!

This commercial appears... every... single... time I use youtube and watch a video... for videos without commercials even. I am going to vote for Jon Tester just so I can have the satisfaction of making these assholes who are ruining youtube for me to bit my big flabby Native American ass!

Every time I see ads like that I think that, since they exist, people must click on them. And that's way more messed up than the actual ad to me.

@Atramentous said:

No, the worst adds are the Lysol and Bic Shavers adds that auto play every ten minutes on a loop when I watch anything of length on youtube. Drives me nuts and its the thing that finally pushed me to get this otherwise useless addblock.

I really don't understand how Youtube allows video ads. It's ridiculously annoying.

@HarlequinRiot said:

@Atramentous said:

No, the worst adds are the Lysol and Bic Shavers adds that auto play every ten minutes on a loop when I watch anything of length on youtube. Drives me nuts and its the thing that finally pushed me to get this otherwise useless addblock.

I really don't understand how Youtube allows video ads. It's ridiculously annoying.

To answer your question with one simple symbol -

$.

The only site where I don't have ABP turned on is Giant Bomb. Used to have to with the old video player, otherwise you got a sad little message making you feel bad. I suppose with them being bought out and the new player I could turn it back on now.

That said, the old ads on GB didn't upset me, they just confused me. I get I'm Canadian, and perhaps they didn't put much thought into Canadian adverts but they were still odd. There were ads for Bentley and Mercedes-Benz, a new mortgage and my current ISP asking me to sign up with them. Also diapers and vacations to my own city. CBS seems to have "fixed" this, now all the ads are for videogames and snake oil. Not nearly as interesting.

I don't mean to brag but wherever I am the same hot women want to meet me in my local area.

@believer258 said:

Adblock plus is free.

Seriously, I installed it two weeks ago and I haven't seen hardly any ads since, plus everything on the internet loads faster. If I'm not mistaken, I still have to deal with Youtube ads before some videos, but that's about it.

There is a youtube ad blocker that works well for me

@ExplodeMode said:

Every time I see ads like that I think that, since they exist, people must click on them. And that's way more messed up than the actual ad to me.

Remember- those of us who proudly post that we can ignore these ads are a vocal minority! :P

I admittedly don't use adblock, because ads don't bother me in the slightest at the sites I routinely visit. I've learned to just ignore them, or mute them.

As for the ads the OP showed- ads of that style have been around for as long as I've been using the internet! And since I started back in 1998 or so, they've supposedly been effective for a LONG TIME. o_O

@addictedtopinescent said:

I'm always wondering about this too, who clicks on these, or who clicks on ads on the internet in general? I also wonder how big a % of the clicks from people clicking them by mistake.

I can't remember where I heard this, but Youtubers were saying about 2% of all viewers click on ads.

My favorites are the ones that are in groups of ten or so, all with stills from Harry Potter or Big Bang Theory that have random parts of the picture circled in red, with captions like "You'll never believe the screwup on set here!", "You'll never see this show the same way again once you notice this!", or "See why this movie was almost banned!".

These are the sorts of ads that make me yearn for the days of punching the monkey for twenty bucks.

@Scrawnto said:

That one I haven't seen yet. The other one is definitely annoying, but it's about the same as those "Click the ___ to win a free iPod!" type ads.

These 'win ___ if you shoot the ___' ads kind of give me a smile when I see them, reminds me of a simpler time.

The worst ads are the pop-under ones that Adblock sometimes doesn't catch, so that when I close out Chrome I realize there's been a stupid full-screen online casino ad looping forever in the background! I just press ctrl+w one more time to get rid of it, but the mere fact that it was open for god-knows-how-long really grinds my gears.

Also pretty crappy ads: site skins where the sides link to some random storepage (I'm looking at you, RPS); I usually middleclick to scroll down, and usually I'll middleclick over on the side (it's a habit) and when there's a site-skin, instead of scrolling, I wind up opening a new tab to some EA storepage. I mean, I was inundated with internet advertising from the age of 6, so I've never felt the slightest compulsion to actually buy something because of an ad -- too desensitized, I guess.