What if Banner Ads were Beautiful Art?
Imagine for a moment having all of the banner ads on every site you visited be replaced by art, with themes customized to your tastes. AddArt is an incredible system that replaces all of those obnoxious banner ads that plague the web with the works of upcoming artists - a great form of subvertising.
Ad-blocking software already exists to turn ads into unsightly monotone spots on the screen, but AddArt takes this a step farther and creates something visually interesting to replace the missing ads. Moreover, people will be able to choose what kinds of art they want to see - like turning on a radio station of choice during that dready drive to work.
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Cool idea. There’s also SpamPaint, which was suggested to WordPress.com as an add-on for Akismet. They loved the idea (sampling images from spam sites and remixing them into abstract art) but said it would be too hard on the servers.
raincoaster - July 16, 2007 at 9:18 am
I would love it if Banner Ads were beautiful. Do you just download this program or you have to go out an dget it?
abarclay12 - July 16, 2007 at 6:15 pm
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It’s a FireFox plugin you install - they’re still working on improving it, but for now you can at least get one that blocks ads
allsux - July 17, 2007 at 12:35 pm