Whatever is happening behind the scenes is unknown to those non evangelists who read the forum. In the years I have been reading this I can honestly say with no exaggeration or hesitation I have never seen an evangelist say a single thing against Avast. Now if that occurs behind the scenes more power to you, however some stuff that is slipping through such as this business ad that takes up 1/4 of the screen simply isn't acceptable and obviously means the message isn't being delivered clearly enough. So if no one at Avast can see straight, I would hope that the evangelist would and let them know they are upsetting a few people. @lakrsrool earlier said a couple of ads were aggressive... to which I said meh... NOW I say this is aggressive.
They have increased in number, size, time (as they are certainly staying up much longer than the pop up options have been previously) and this is just in the last month.
So prove me wrong... let avast know instead of telling users to like it or lump it.
Since I am being quoted here (see in
RED above), I'll respond. I frankly do not recall ever saying quote: "a couple of ads were aggressive" as you've said I have.... I do recall saying that I had been generally getting far more that 2-3 ads per day as some had been suggesting is the case (and as many as even 5+, of which I'm presuming
Bob3160 would say is possibly an exaggeration which perhaps admittedly may be but then it's possible that
Bob3160 may not be taking into account the number of hours I generally use a computer and in any case I can certainly say it sure seemed like it was that much at the time). I'd say it is probably
more accurate to say that I was complaining about more than say "2-3 ads" minimally as being in your words too "aggressive" than to say I stated in your words quote "a couple of ads were aggressive". In fact you might even notice in the example interchange below I actually said quote "
couple of times a day, well OK" (that is relative to my computer usage, which I'll touch on below), so it would appear I am perhaps being misquoted by you
dprout69, unless of course I'm forgetting somewhere that I said differently and in that case I welcome a post showing where I'm mistaken which is of course not out of the question and I'll be happy to apologize for my oversight. It is interesting to see how you've now reached a similar conclusion that I had in regards to ads and I'll say that I clearly do agree with you that the example image you posted is clearly beyond the pale.
That all said, most importantly what I've often been saying all along is that the
number of ads will inherently be relative to how much a person uses their respective computer obviously. A person using the computer 2-3 hours a day will have a very different experience than a person who will invariably use their computer 10-15 hours a day as is very often the case with me. And of course as a result in my case
I had been clearly experiencing far more than 2-3 ads per day as I've said many times in this topic which again
as I've very often pointed out will obviously always be
a direct consequence to the number of hours a user happens to be
on the computer.
I'd say that the following prior interchange in this thread (page 5 to be specific) serves to illustrate basically the point I've been making for the most part:
I updated avast 2 days ago and ever since I been getting an annoying pop-up daily asking me to upgrade. Is this how its going to be from now on?
Read through the thread if you like, I'd only say if you just get one POPUP daily then consider yourself fortunate. Of course as I've pointed out in this thread it all depends upon how much of the time a user is on their respective computer but I can tell you someone like myself who works most of the day and sometimes into the night on many different things on my computer I will get several POPUPS (far more than 2-3 times) within that time.
And of course I discussed this below (in part) in a reply I posted on the previous page 4 (where the OP was arguing 2-3 times a day shouldn't be a problem) in regards to how there exists a much greater impact for users who are on their respective computers longer than most:
I can tell you that I've had just the "seasonal sale" POPUP alone appear far more than 2 to 3 times a day. A couple of times a day, well OK, but if you think about it, you might experience a bombshell epiphany and recognize that the frequency that a user might experience repetitive POPUPS will inherently depend upon how much of the time a person is on their computer (hmmm head scratch, light bulb turns on).
A person can be on their computer for various reasons (i.e. they may be involved in application programming and/or designing websites or they maybe involved in an on-line business or they may be involved in their own respective marketing program etc etc for example) which requires them to be on the computer most of the time. In my case I am mostly on my computer various times throughout the day and night for prolonged periods of time and again I can assure you that I get various types of Avast POPUPS FAR MORE than just 2 to 3 times a day and when you happen to be diligently working on something it is clearly distracting to be interrupted with the irritant of an incidental ad when the fact is I have other applications that provide me with much more meaningful POPUP messages throughout the day and night that are far more critical to my needs than the insignificance of a repetitive ad all day and night long. Which is why I have previously suggested that either "learning" software or giving the user the option to minimally reduce the ads in situations where the user happens to be on their respective computer for longer periods of time than most is a reasonable option to consider offering the user.
Personally, I don't see how POPPING UP an ad (especially the very same one) more than once a day is necessary and more than that it would seem to me to be in the realm of "badgering" hence not only unnecessary but actually work against the goal of promoting the product as a result of this aggressive approach to marketing a product.
