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Flash Banners? REALLY?!? 2003 called, wonders where it's bloated slow loading inaccessible crap that has no business on websites went to...
Really? Where? I see a SVG... Oh wait, you must mean the ads I haven't seen on websites since before the dotcom bubble burst or something... No, just checked generated source -- there's no flash on this site that I can see. There's SVG... the ads link to scripted image rotators inside iframes... no flash. Lemme guess "It's animated and scalable, that's flash right?" :/
No, not that. They do have flash banners in rotation. Check again later. Then go check the home page of yahoo, cnn, forbes, usatoday and a billion others and you will find flash ads EVERYWHERE. Don't forget to check the generated source, don't be fooled by something that's animated and scalable. It may not be flash It's also really interesting that you saw flash ads BEFORE the dotcom bubble burst and you don't see them now!
That's because it's the last time I ran a browser without an adblock, ad-blocking at the .hosts level, or using an ad-blocking extension to a browser; It's when it was quite clearly illustrated to the entire world that online advertisers are a bunch of sleazeball scam artists who cannot be trusted; so... 2001ish. Last time I didn't have ad-blocking in place. Of course that as a REAL Opera user (instead of the pathetic crippleware known as ChrOpera) I only enable plugins in a per-site basis... Which means flash has no chance to play anywhere I don't let it... which at this point means Netflix and... well... Ok, Netflix.
Well, that makes sense and I will have to agree with you that sometimes it gets very annoying with all those out of control flash ads. But then again they will always find ways to be annoying ...(html5 for example)
That's the laugh of it, they are annoying as flash, so do people blame the ads or the tech used to deliver them? They blame flash -- and then recreate the exact same annoying inaccessible garbage with JavaScript. Kind of like how TARGET was deprecated in non-frameset pages because it's crap accessibility shoving a new window down the user's throat if they want it or not -- but then scripttards started using JavaScript with window.open to replicate the behavior -- COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT! Or the dipshits who turned "don't use tables for layout" into the ignorant halfwit "dont' use tables ever" -- or the 100% fictional nonsense about EM and STRONG replacing B and I (they don't -- all four have different semantic meanings!). The problem with flash banners wasn't that they were flash -- it's that they were annoying, distracting bandwidth wasting animated crap... Now people are making the same annoying, distracting, bandwidth wasting animated crap with JavaScript or SVG, call it HTML 5 (when it isn't, It's JavaScript or SVG), then go "well what's wrong with that?" Morons.