What this plug in does is takes Internet ads and replaces them with works of art. Nice, I thought. I do run addblock plus, though, so I don't think I'll notice. I installed it about a month ago then promptly forgot about it.
Time passes. About two weeks. I have completely forgotten about the plug in at this point.
Suddenly, I start noticing a trend. I, as do most people of my age, tend to just not see advertising any more as there's so damn much of it but I saw this one add that I was sure I'd seen before. It was a really, really, really creepy eye. There was no branding, no link attached to it. There was no name. Nothing. Just an eye.
This eye followed me from Cracked to Cheggit (which is a torrent site devoted exclusively to somewhat adult material.) which I found very, very fucking creepy.
To illustrate just how creepy it is, imagine seeing this everywhere you go on the web:
There's no real end to this story, I eventually worked out that the plug in I'd installed x weeks ago was spawning the eye everywhere in place of advertising but...
Could they not have picked some LESS CREEPY art? The art is supposed to rotate every two weeks and I'm counting the days. Having said that, if it's a choice between staring at a scary eye and having another of those bloody ad's look at me, it's creepy eye all the way.
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