Weather.com has to have some of the most intrusive and annoying ads on the web. Seriously being a web and marketing lover I think done correctly the web has the potential to be the perfect marriage of targeting and convenience. However, I recently got fed up with the bold in your face continuous annoyance of the dancing, moving, jiggling, content covering, bigger than the content ads. I decided to poll the linked in community to get a sense of what others have found as replacements to the annoying advertisement ladened weather site. I promptly received 12 responses to my query from web users that have had it with weather.com. Below are the recommendations of the answerers.
- Fire Fox with Adblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4042 this tool got much praise and for good reason. Currently has over 200,000 downloads and that number is growing by the second.
- http://www.wunderground.com/ got plenty of nods as well. There are ads there but not the jiggling kind.
- weather.mobi the mobile solution from weather.com got a few nods as a suitable solution for those that are on the go or would rather use their phone to check the weather. It gets specific and removes flashy stuff.
- http://www.weather.gov has no ads and has a lot of functionality.
- http://www.accuweather.com got a nod but it also has ads in a few places
Interesting enough no one mentioned weather bug. I am thankful to all who helped me on linked in with this question and now I pose the same question to you. Please let the rest of us know about your low ad profile weather solution.
