Luca,
You've said it all commenting on my post.
Such an example of advertising that just creates a bad name for a company.
Just continuing with what you said in the comment.
The funny thing about ads, is that many websites are payed now by the visitors for not showing the ads. So were it brings? Right, the ads should become more and more annoying, we've seen flashing, singing an popping-all-around ads, now we've got also video ads. And IMO the intention is not anymore to catch the attention...
Or maybe I am just too paranoid?
The same is with spam, who will get the most revenue from new spam techniques? The spammers? no way... they get less and less clicks, and that's why they need to send more and more. But the spam fighters will get their coupons from users of their services.
Going any further in this theory just scares me, it seems like various internet entities are protecting us from themselves, yep, just like racket.
P.S. Don't take this post too serious anyway...
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