Ain’t That Stupid
Published March 28th, 2009 | 
Yesterday, I was watching a tv show on Fancast.com and if you’ve ever watched a television program online you know that every few minutes or so, the program is interrupted for a ad break. Well, as I was watching my program, the ad comes on — except it isn’t an ad, but a message where the ad is supposed to be stating that the ad cannot be shown at this time and the reason may be because the viewer is running ad-blocking software or something. That the viewer should disable the ad-blocker to be able to watch the ad. Now, I was not running any special software and I have no idea why this ad was unable to play, but that’s not the point. What is pertinent is why, if I were running ad blocking software, would I want to disable it since the whole point of running such software is so the user wouldn’t have to watch commercials to begin with. Furthermore, what’s the point of running such a stupid message? Are there Internet users out there lodging complaints because they are unable to view commercials online? Is there actually a mob of people going, “What’s up with that? Where’s the commercial? I tuned-in to watch it and all I’m getting is this dumb tv show.” It ain’t happenin’, right? Yet, Fancast, Hulu or whoever the fuck is behind the airing of these commercials saw fit to write-up an obnoxious little message and run it anyway.
