Cruel and mean...yes...one other thing comes to mind as well...flashing pictures also play havoc with those individuals who have vision problems...my mother for one can't use certain web pages due to the flashing advertisements on the pages...this affects her email client as well...so we have now redirected the email to Outlook, where she can read her email without all the flashing advertisements...it's not the advertisement, it is the flashing effect...something web developers might give some thought to...as consumers will use and install ad blockers....BD
AP) -- Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they're exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons.
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