Apparently there is a service out there called SkipIt. This service allows you to skip online video ads that are pushed at you when you to to a page, e.g., gocomics.com and choose a comic.
This sounds like a great idea until you find out that they’ll be happy to do this for you for a paltry fee of 10 cents a whack. (Well, OK, you can also click on a social media button but since I only do Facebook and Twitter…and almost never look at Twitter and try to avoid Facebook as much as possible…that isn’t a reasonable alternative for me.)
Not only is that highway robbery for something that ought to be free, these people must have huge clanking brass ones to think that this is actually a service people will pay for. Although come to think of it, people probably do pay for it — the list of them probably matching closely those who voted for the current occupant of the White House. ‘Coz, hey, look, only a dime every time.
These people also probably track closely the set of those who think paying five bucks for a latte at Starbucks is a hell of a deal.
The bottom line, though, really comes down to this: Who in the FUCK thought it would be a good idea to push video ads (with the volume turned up) to people in the first place?
Kill them all.