Besides just being obnoxious, distracting, eye-hurting wastes of space.
If it’s a static picture, with plainly stated text I might read it. If it’s blinking, scrolling, toggling between images… those I block… and if ABP doesn’t get them, I’ll add a filter.
When a website slows to a crawl because of all the ads, then I do not feel guilty about using an ad blocker.
Sure, some of them derive an income from ads, but come on, do you really need to have a ton of ads running on your website?
I could forsee a downward spiral:
The more ads you put on your page, the less people want to visit.
The less people visit, the lower your ad income.
The lower your income, the more you need ads…
< GOTO 10 >
It depends. If you’re lyla.com, yes.
BTW, don’t check that site.
It’s a review site for escorts, massage services and strip clubs.
You can imagine what the ads are about.
/me logs in to check metrics suddenly increase
Especially from work
/me trundles off to inspect if from the Bossly Unit’s PC
thank you for lyla.com - going to use it to irritate some irritating person…
I don’t care that your boyfriend is cheating on you with the woman you all live with, or that he cant decide what he wants to do, or that you know it’s never going to stop, that he won’t make that call. I also don’t give a f that you plot twist are cheating on him with some friend of his and that his was a payback cheat.
I DO care that because you are having this argument IN MY EXAM ROOM I am having to pay my staff to stay late and clean up after your sorry selves. We could have been done half an hour ago but nooooo… You had to start this two minutes after checking in, and now we can’t get our jobs done until you STFU.
And then you had the nerve to pay with three different forms of payment because you didn’t think the bill would be so much. On three animals with full vaccines and skin conditions. And did I mention that you showed up for your 2pm appointment at 3:53pm? You are the definition of a one-star person.
(I couldn’t decide if this was work or everywhere…But since there are one-star people everywhere…). 
Unfortunately there’s a lot of one-star persons out there like this one… 
Gee, thanks for making sure that your benefits explanation was complete and thorough so even a moron like me could understand it. It’s not going to be a hardship to pay $1800/mo for my child’s mental health medications until our out-of-pocket is met. Heck, I probably have that rolling around in the bottom of my purse in extra change. And really, what was I going to do with that money anyway, save for her education? And yes, it is completely reasonable that mental health care is considered a non-preventive type of care. Who would ever want to be sure that peoe were in a good mental place? Luckily all the hospital stays and secondary problems like self-harm and illness from not taking care of yourself ARE covered as preventive, and so at a lower cost. Why keep them.from happening in the first place? It’s much more exciting to get calls from the school that your child self-reported for cutting, and won’t be released back to class until you take her for an emergency psych evaluation, which always has the possibility of ending with a 72-hr hold. That is a much better use of your funds as an insurance provider; whatever was I thinking that you might want to prevent that from happening??
Tl;Dr - our new Rx coverage takes DD15’s meds from $65/mo to $1800/mo. Effective now. No other options were truly available, as the cost at the end of the year is the same. I may be able to squirrel money into the HSA to mitigate some of the ouch, but…OUCH!
Damn, and since you have an HSA you can’t use a FSA for Rx. And the contribution limits kill you there.
Specialty and unusual Rx charges are where they get you now. PPO’s and insurance companies are riding doctors charges, and unecessary admissions, and crap like two pillows for $500 or something, but controlling costs on life saving and mental illness drugs isn’t working well. It’s right up there with dialysis.
Yeah, but the rest of us are usually pretty boring, so if we can contribute most of what the out of pocket will be, we should be OK. It’s the fact that it all comes at the beginning of the year. Thank goodness I refilled everyone’s meds right at the end of December so I would have time to sort things out… Just sucks. May have to change DS9’s ADHD meds as well, since his current med will be $300/mo. We were thinking of changing and weaning…This might be the time…
Yeah, if I had had better positioning on my illness I could have managed the debt better. as it is I started with like $500 in my FSA for dental stuff and blew through my 5,600 OOP in a week. Then three months later here’s a new plan year and I hit my oop in one day. OTOH, the total was about a million, so I’m good paying 12,000 or so for it.
No, my daughter will not be handing in a spreadsheet of three generations of family marked with who suffers from what medical condition. No, I don’t care that you, a teacher and not a healthcare provider, is simply going to aggregate the data for use in classroom discussions. Yes, I will allow my daughter to write down the handful of conditions that run in our family with no identifying information as to who has them. No, you will not cause this to affect her grade in any way.
HiPPA violation, much?
Btw, i did say that. And I will say it again when her teachers or administrators call me. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen…There are some pretty prominent people in our town; if their medical conditions got out, it could be a very big deal.
Really? You waited until the last minute to tell me that the loan won’t pass underwriting because of the way the contract is structured? The loan you have had three weeks to write? Based on the contract you’ve had since November? You better find a way to fix this, since we are ready to flip the switches on Monday at noon. How many lawyers looked at the contract and approved it? How many bankers went over the loan? And none of you found it until now?? Fix. It.
This should be reported, or someone is going to repeat the mistake, which is outrageous.
Three hours. You have three hours to make this loan happen.
Muhuhahaha. Next to impossible.
Oh, it’ll happen. Thank goodness for small towns wanting to retain local businesses.