{"id":194,"date":"2005-01-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/most-hated-advertising-techniques-jakob-nielsens-alertbox\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:28:50","slug":"most-hated-advertising-techniques-jakob-nielsens-alertbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/most-hated-advertising-techniques-jakob-nielsens-alertbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/\">Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/\"> Alertbox<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20041206.html\" title=\"Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)\">Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nPeople often have strong <strong>negative visceral reactions<\/strong> to ads that commit the sins listed in the table. One user, referring to an ad that automatically started playing audio, wrote: <em>&quot;IF ANYTHING COULD BE WORSE THAN POP-UPS, THIS IS IT. I HATE THIS AD. HATE HATE HATE.&quot;<\/em><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nAnother user entered the following comment on a major website&#8217;s feedback form: <em>&quot;You<br \/>\npeople should be ashamed of yourself! I did not ask to have 3 pop ups<br \/>\ncome across my screen when I visit you. I do not visit singles sites,<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t want to add 4 inches. <\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t use any of the services that pop up on my screen. I think it is<br \/>\ndisgusting that you money hungry bastards have infringed on my computer<br \/>\nfor your own selfish gain. From this moment on, I am boycotting you,<br \/>\nand I am advising EVERYONE I know to do the same thing. Down with you<br \/>\nand your pop up ads.&quot;<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column from Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox. Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox). People often have strong negative visceral reactions to ads that commit the sins listed in the table. One user, referring to an ad that automatically started playing audio, wrote: &quot;IF ANYTHING COULD BE WORSE THAN POP-UPS, THIS IS IT. I HATE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}