Counter-productive.

I’m curious to know why software houses like Microsoft and Google insist on putting moving adverts on my web pages. The thing is, if the advert is still I can ignore it and that’s fine. But if it jumps around, or has animations, or includes 1-second loops of Oprah Winfrey crying because she’s ‘been lying to us all these years,’ I get really irritated very quickly and develop a seriously bad attitude towards the advertiser.

You’d think they’d realise that, wouldn’t you?