The Flood of Ads is distracting!

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  1. Don Bobbitt profile image78
    Don Bobbittposted 4 years ago

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    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

    1. OldRoses profile image64
      OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Have you explored Medium?  It's a subscription site.  No ads.  I write about politics but there are articles on a plethora of other topics.

      1. Don Bobbitt profile image78
        Don Bobbittposted 4 years agoin reply to this

        Checking it out now! Thanks! DON

    2. sallybea profile image87
      sallybeaposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I agree, very distracting if you really want to read something.

  2. Jodah profile image85
    Jodahposted 4 years ago

    The amount of ads is beyond ridiculous, Don. Articles are virtually becoming ads with a bit of other text squeezed in between. Soon, no one will be reading anything online. Medium's ok but you can only read a couple of articles each month unless you pay $5.00 per month. Maybe that's worth it not to have ads.

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      Marisa Writesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      That's what Medium is banking on.

  3. Ryan Cornelius profile image69
    Ryan Corneliusposted 4 years ago

    Agreed. Thought it was just me that noticed it. Very distracting

 
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