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5. Yes, I agree with your observation about wazoo
Fri May 25, 2012, 03:22 AM
May 2012

First it was their reader comments section that went right wing. Then their news reporting became grossly slanted to the right. And all the while it was happening, their endless advertising was becoming more and more prevalent, encroaching and rude, as it trashed up their main page.

It has now become so bad that their rude ads appear in blatant areas of their main page so that during the course of navigating the curser from one area of the page to another, a person cannot help but touch some small area of the ads' border. Then, as soon as that happens, the rude advertisement balloons up and fills the entire screen, with no way to collapse it again without leaving their web page. Or, I suppose a person could also just sit there and allow the ad to play.

Another unforgivable tactic they use without warning is to start some "cute" animated advertising graphic that travels across the entire page as it grows larger and larger while preventing the user from being able to continue with their browsing. Sometimes they even have the gall to ask the user to rate on a progressive scale just how thrilled they were to have had wazoo's advertising trash encroach and distract their efforts to browse.

It doesn't seem to matter how many new CEO's wazoo goes through, either. Their policy of maintaining a totally trashed out web browser remains the same. It only serves to waste people's time, as it offends them.

Wazoo is physically located in the S.F. Bay Area, which is supposed to be a mecca of progressive thinking; however all I perceive from them anymore is right wing nazi propaganda of the kind that would make Faux smile, along with blatant and encroaching advertising.

Wazoo has become the AM radio band of the Internet. I do not wish them well.

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