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This is also broken: Hilton Hotels login

Continuing on with the “Flash ads should never obscure content or functionality on a website” theme, today I noticed I couldn’t log into my Hilton Hotel account because of some stupid ad for an olympics panda bear.

Here is me trying to login (click on the screenshot to see the .mov screen capture).

The sound you hear is me clicking and then smacking then punching my mouse button trying to get the login button to work. After I hit the teeny tiny close button, it works (the movie cuts off where my account page comes up immediately after).

I don’t understand why there is advertising on this page in the first place. Hilton Hotels is a hotel company, not a media company that must use annoying ads to subsidize their content.

My experience a few months ago was that the Hilton web site was just broken, period. I was constantly being asked to login over and over again.