Ever come across one of those "next generation smiley" adds where theres that annoying voice that says "helllooo??"
It freaked me out so bad when I first heard it (I was home alone, in the dark, playing runescape whilst 'browsing net', and I'm trying to PK and I hear this "hheellloooo" and I full shit bricks.
Not only is it an annoying practice to have random sounds played on your website, it also kills bandwidth. I mean, some websites NEED sound, and I still stand strong behind my arguments I made earlier in favor of sound on a website, however, the annoying sounds of someone randomly talking, etc. just kill your website.
Imagine trying to browse a forum, and every time you click a link, you hear a different sound each time, just like flicking a TV channel back in the 90's.
As a personal experience for myself, when looking for hosts I came across a website, and it looked really good etc.
But when I loaded the frontpage, I was confronted with this sound of a girl babbling on about the company and its products, with no way to turn it off.
What did I do?
Closed the tab, and never revisted (nor took notice of their name).
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