01-07-2020, 03:37 AM
When I was in advertising, I used to work with the guys who generate those things. To your point, Gold, when they first started populating our internet landscape, they were so fully crammed with ads that people clicked off of the surveys after a few minutes, especially when the ads contained a fake "Next" or an arrow shape, as you would think you were going to the next item on the list, but were instead redirected to an ad for something you weren't interested in. They've realized that to maximize the time people will spend on the pages, they have to be less invasive and easier to read. More eyeball time on a page increases the likelihood that you'll become interested in whatever else is on the page and click on something else.
Don't get me wrong, they're fun to read, but having been in the slimy bowels of the advertising world, I read them with the veneer of what those lists are trying to get us to do. And, apologies if my soul-crushing past in the world of trying to sell us all stuff we don't need taints my opinion on these things..
Don't get me wrong, they're fun to read, but having been in the slimy bowels of the advertising world, I read them with the veneer of what those lists are trying to get us to do. And, apologies if my soul-crushing past in the world of trying to sell us all stuff we don't need taints my opinion on these things..