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The Digital Age: Advertisements on The Web

posted on 18 February 2012

As the internet becomes more common in households around the world, more money goes into advertisements. Advertisements in their simplest form can be a single line of text, but larger companies have gone all out. Large animated ads now sprawl across your screen on many sites, thanks to banner maker software. These often slow down the very computer you are working on while using the internet. I am not left with the urge to buy a product when a large ad banner is on my screen, but actually the opposite. I am all in favor of advertising when it is done properly. One simple ad that catches my eye and doesn't annoy me is better than 12 ads that perform nothing besides slow down my browsing experience. If ads are present in a service, then the savings made by said company should pass their savings onto the end consumer. Services like Hulu allow users to watch shows for free because of advertisements in the ad.