Why do sreaming sites like coolsports have adverts

Placed continually over the match u are trying to watch? Surely nobody who is trying to watch something would ever get distracted and decide to stay on the annoying page it takes you and more importantly surely this just puts people off using the site?

Posted By: Charles21 on April 7th 2013 at 17:18:08

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Why do sreaming sites like coolsports have adverts (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:18:08
- Propagation of rootkits and other malware. (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, Apr 7, 17:28:52
  - just on my ipad (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:30:29
    - iOS the most vulnerable of the mobile OSes according to a security blokey i was reading la (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, Apr 7, 17:32:41
      - oh bugger (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:34:51
- they do it purely to annoy you (Other Football) - Tombs, Apr 7, 17:22:27
  - Thought so (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:25:44
- Think the hope is you accidentally click on them and for every click, the site gets money. (n/m) (Other Football) - DrDublin, Apr 7, 17:19:25
  - oh really? (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:22:06
    - ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Huge Small, Apr 7, 17:25:07
      - I press the X to close the advert but still a new page (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:26:29
        
        I got a fucker of a virus by doing that (n/m) (Other Football) - South_West_Canary, Apr 7, 17:36:28
        
        Its a pretend x, you are being Merked by Rio (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 7, 17:30:05
        
        I know about those pretend Xs (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 7, 17:36:14

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