Rocket Silence » adblock http://rocketsilence.com/db Imagine Content Worth Reading Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:07:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Accuweather.com had 858,348 pixels to tell me the weather and couldn't do it… http://rocketsilence.com/db/2010/01/13/accuweather-had-pixels/ http://rocketsilence.com/db/2010/01/13/accuweather-had-pixels/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:47:01 +0000 Carlos http://rocketsilence.com/db/?p=375 Where's the beef? I mean, weather?

This is the page I got as a result of typing in my ZIP code to get the weather report yesterday. It measures 1266 pixels wide and 678 pixels tall. That’s a total of 858,348 pixels with which they could have told me the weather. That, was  – I thought, a simple request. And apparently it isn’t. I don’t run Adblock, but apparently I should. I usually go to wunderground.com or weather.com, both of which are far more tolerable, but I thought I should make mention of this anyway.

There comes a point when a company, in this case – Accuweather, needs to ask themselves: what the fuck are you doing? Do you have that little respect for the people who use your site?

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