Oct
6
2007

minor annoyance

On Wednesday, I had an hour to kill in between flights at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, so I decided to use the airport’s wifi service to check my e-mail. The service’s login page opens first with a big advertisement, then lets me click in to get to the page where I login or create an account.

Which brings me to a new pet peeve: If I’m already paying you for Internet service, why are you blocking my access to your service with this big ad? I would understand this more if the wifi was being offered for free, making this an ad-supported service. But I paid around $7 for my daypass; why do I have to sit through an ad on top of that?

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