Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween.
Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. …show more content…
Apple's recent move to start supporting ad-blockers on its iPhones and iPads has brought up the resurgence of the issue. But other tech companies are trying to convince users there is a way to live with ads, by making them less frustrating.
Visiting a web page on a phone or tablet can be irritating and not just because the speed of mobile connections can be far below that of the average home network. Wi-fi is often slower in a coffee shop or on a train because so many other people are using it. The experience is made worse by pop-up, rollover and interstitial ads, navigation bars and the like that make a page jump, and make the consumer go insane. We've all endured the struggle as we tried to click on a link only to have the page leap down so you accidentally hit the ad that you then have to burst in frustration as you try to get to the actual page. That leads to the question why do we even have ads in the first place? The answer is that websites need to pay their bills, and ads are the easiest way to do that. The fact that mobile browsing is now massively popular should make designers rethink the way they produce web pages. Hopefully, we as the consumers, will one day live without the annoyance of advertisements so we skim the Internet looking for a good read, as we
Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. …show more content…
Apple's recent move to start supporting ad-blockers on its iPhones and iPads has brought up the resurgence of the issue. But other tech companies are trying to convince users there is a way to live with ads, by making them less frustrating.
Visiting a web page on a phone or tablet can be irritating and not just because the speed of mobile connections can be far below that of the average home network. Wi-fi is often slower in a coffee shop or on a train because so many other people are using it. The experience is made worse by pop-up, rollover and interstitial ads, navigation bars and the like that make a page jump, and make the consumer go insane. We've all endured the struggle as we tried to click on a link only to have the page leap down so you accidentally hit the ad that you then have to burst in frustration as you try to get to the actual page. That leads to the question why do we even have ads in the first place? The answer is that websites need to pay their bills, and ads are the easiest way to do that. The fact that mobile browsing is now massively popular should make designers rethink the way they produce web pages. Hopefully, we as the consumers, will one day live without the annoyance of advertisements so we skim the Internet looking for a good read, as we