AT&T brings annoying pop-up ads to a TV near you!

AT&T Brings Pop Up Ads To U-Verse TV [Broadband Reports]

If you're like me, then you're not a fan of pop-up advertisements that always used to pop-up in a window over web pages before browsers integrated pop-up blocking technology. They were distracting and filled my screen up with numerous useless windows. Now, if you're an AT&T U-Verse customer, you may need to buy a pop-up blocker for your television.

Broadband Reports has posted an article this morning about complaints from AT&T customers in the site's forums regarding pop-up advertising that AT&T has deployed to U-Verse connected television screens. Imagine you're watching your favorite show on your AT&T U-Verse connected television. Out of nowhere, up pops a screen that overlays your show advertising a Domino's pizza. To rid your screen of the advertisement, the ad advises uses to press the "ATT and OK" buttons on their remote to "dismiss this message."

AT&T responded with a statement that the pop-ups were informational about their U-Verse offerings and not paid ads.  But if you read the ad in the picture above, you get a free Domino's pizza if you buy Showtime and the Movie Channel. 

Give me a break!  Sounds like a commercial to me,  Don't worry folks, pop-up ads on TV are not in any of Insight's plans.

Comments

[Mark]

This is scary. Comcast will "spam" my cable box, but all it does is light up a little light telling me that I have a message. They do not force the message onto my screen like that.

The only possible reason I would ever see for a cable provider to pop up a message like that would be for an emergency message, like a tornado warning, or national emergency.

[draxx2]

Very interesting....the first thing that I had to
do when visiting your page was block an annoying
pop-up from http://adland.tv/ asking me to install the QuickTime plugin....
I assume to view some annoying advertisement, since the page looks just fine after I blocked it! Shouldn't your own page be free of annoying
pop-ups before you complain about them ?

[Ryan]

AT&T is the most annoying company I have ever received marketing from. I am either called, mailed, or visited by a salesperson from AT&T once a week trying to get me to convert to their services. I just received an email from AT&T today and about lost it. How did they get my address, as I certainly never signed up for it. I hope they are wasting tons of money on advertising for this, because it is annoying as hell.

Oh, and I use antennae and hulu instead of cable, so your $30/month is not cheaper than my FREE.

[Lukus]

The only possible reason I would ever see for a cable provider to pop up a message like that would be for an emergency message, like a tornado warning, or national emergency. http://www.fullmediafire.com