Some things are just unnecessary. For example, have you seen all those annoying “win-a-free-iPod” flash ads that have been plastered all over the Internet in the last few months? They are almost impossible to ignore because they’re flashing and blinking and generally drawing attention away from the content and to themselves, but I guess that’s the point. I can live with those ads, but I don’t like ‘em.

Today I saw this ad:

Yep, pop Santa’s zit and win a free iPod. It’s from the same people who have brought us all the other God-awful “win-an-iPod” ads out there with the added bonus of being totally disgusting to boot.

The free iPod scheme is bad enough. I cannot believe people fall for selling out all their demographic information and filling out a couple of credit card offers for a “free” iPod. People have no idea what their information is worth, or that it’s not necessarily a great idea to just randomly open credit card accounts.

This is just the icing on the cake by inticing people to do stupid things and being the most pointless and disgusting ad I’ve ever seen online (and I’ve been online a loooong time).