Retailers are getting more bold about where they place ads! I was going to buy something online from Lands End and went to pay, selected my card ready to send them money and do you know what they did? They put up a pop up ad! You can’t complete the transaction until you hear a pitch from “hello fresh” and “do you want to apply for an apple card?” etc. (I have pretty robust adblockers at home, is this how people live now?) Of course, I canceled the purchase.
@futurebird this IS how people live!! On the occasion I see other people navigating the web it's just appalling. I also have heavy ad blocking and I often forget how vastly different my experience is from most people.
What made it worse? They had a little counter to show you how many “offers” you had to reject (3) before you could complete the purchase. So they knew it was an imposition on some level. No, I don’t want to save $10 and use some shady sounding shipping service. No I don’t want $40 “hello fresh” whatever— NO.
Hopefully, it’s pilot and when they see all the abandoned shopping carts they’ll quit. It’s always an arms race with companies to preserve an unharried digital environment
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