No, no, no, no, no (BT Internet)

Member Name: gryphon

Product:	BT Internet
Date:	24/04/01 (90 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: obvious

Disadvantages: way, way too obvious

I don't care about the product, I don't care about the graphics, I don't care about the price.

I'd go out of my way to avoid this particular nasty- can you believe that they have put in pop-up boxes!

These are terrible-
They use bandwidth and slow it down for all of us.
They reload every single time you access a page.
They force my browser to resize all other windows to accomodate them.

If a banner doesn't get the response they want, BT should either not bother, or get better banners.
The pop-up box is the equivalent of always writing in capitals- shouting all the time, and very bad manners.
If I want 'push' technology, I'll ask for it, otherwise just back off and let me choose what I want to click through on.

The final result for me is to leave a nasty taste, and to negatively reinforce the view of an overbearing, arrogant and monolithic company that doesn't really care what we think.

Most of my spleen was vented against an annoying pop-up: banners I can live with, and use as I choose.

As for the content- I think the ad agency has sold BT a flawed concept, that belittles people, rather than empowers them. The ads may have been vaguely humourous at the first viewing, but have almost instantly become an annoyance.

I have no axe to grind with BTi as a company, as I don't use their product, or know anyone who does. This op was written at a visceral level in response to the banner/pop-up combo.

One piece of useful advice from the comments on this op- if you get waylaid by a popup box, just minimize it, and carry on.
[You're even allowed to feel a little smug about all that ignoring that you're doing- don't you just wish that the amount of negative feedback was communicated to the perpetrator- maybe one extra popup on their screen for every time someone minimises the offensive article?]

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