The Flood of Ads is distracting!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel that far too many sites, including our writer's site here, our niche sites, as well as my other favorite sites where I most often read articles are allowing far too many ads.
Sure, I understand that the "new thing" is to give advertisers a place to display their products. I get it!
But, if we writers want our articles to be read, I believe we had better say something about the literal flood of ads and popups that we now have to crawl through to read anything anymore.
Someone has to understand that an article is only worth reading, if you can actually read it and not have to go back through the many ads to pick back up on what it is all about.
I started reading "Google News" year ago, and I fear that they are the desired news forum for the world; articles that force you to scroll through numerous pages of ads to get to the end of a simple thousand word article.
My question for my fellow writers is; What must we do? Go back to reading physical books for our reading entertainment?
DON
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