As you probably know or can guess, I hate web advertising that goes beyond simple text ads. Anything that moves or blinks or gets in your way annoys the hell out of me. I use PithHelmet for Safari, and make sure the settings are optimized so that all the sites I regularly visit are defanged of any ads.

However, one form of in-your-face advertising which is so far immune from such blockers are “content links,” those double-underline links which show pop-up ads when your mouse travels over them. These get set off a lot just because you move your mouse from point A to point B without being extra cautious to avoid the double-underlines.

But at least there can still be comedy to be had from them. From what I can observe, these ad links are created by some program without human intervention, which would explain the weird way that various words are chosen and somehow linked to various ads.

All I can say is that if I were Shopping.com, I would ask for my money back for this ad:

Unless, of course, they enjoy brisk sales of toxins.