Usability Forum

Not so intellitext

By Eddie_Lopez. Thursday, 4. May 2006, 23:49:46

I'm sure I'm not the only person not happy with "intellitext" popping up around my browsing experience as of late. So I'd like to take this brief opportunity to point and laugh at its lack of intelligence...

"relevant" ha! (for those who don't know, Bernie Mac is a comedian, not a new Apple DVD-Burner). And for those who are reading between the lines- yes I was reading an article about a Transformers live action movie, what of it? You wanna start something?

Oh, and get this! From the company website*-

Positive User Experience
A user must mouse-over an IntelliTXT word to view an advertisement. IntelliTXT is a 100% User-Driven Advertising Experience.

I'm not so sure "Positive" is the word I would use to describe this user experience.

*meh- I don't really feel like linking it- I guess I'm just being a cry-baby about it, but still; you can search it if you don't believe me.

DoToS: Denial of (Terms of) ServiceWouldn't you like to be a techie too?

Comments

Stu_Pedasso # 5. May 2006, 16:21

What bugs me about it is some websites use that same mouse-over gesture to define an unfamiliar term, so you see something, mouse over it for the definition, and instead get a stupid ad.

danigoldman # 10. May 2006, 18:46

I hate this pop-ups. It takes a few seconds for it to go away, which makes it extremely annoying.

Anonymous # 7. May 2007, 14:24

camherder writes:

In Opera it is easy to stop Intellitxt by going to site preferences and disable javascripting then reload and voila!

Anonymous # 18. May 2007, 07:28

Anonymous writes:

Camherder,

There is a much better way to fix this with out disabling java script that will prevent many good websites from funtioning.

Link.
http://www.tech-weekly.com/search/label/Opera

Anonymous # 22. June 2007, 04:45

Michael A. Banks writes:

"IntelliTXT is a 100% User-Driven Advertising Experience."

Right. It's an ambush. User-driven like a land-mine! And advertisers are paying to piss people off. Have they ever heard of "negative impressions?"
--Mike
http://www.michaelabanks.com

Anonymous # 31. August 2007, 11:50

Anonymous writes:

Try this site to get rid of this amd most ads
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm