- Joined
- Sep 27, 2002
- Location
- Alberta
Well after reading the article on the front page, I thought I'd throw in my two cents about spam. Yes, like all of you, and EVERYONE I've ever talked to, they hate spam. They send you junk that has no relevence to your life what-so-ever, and expect you to call them.
And the way they do it is getting worse and worse. First it started with email and banners, then they started the popups, then they moved onto flash animation that you have to watch before the page loads, or popups with no close button, and now more recently sending messenger to WinXP and Win2k users through messenger. It's just so frusterating.
Really what course, or get rich quick schemes tell these people that spamming works? Don't they realize that after they do it, the whole world will hate them? They will be known as scum, the epitome of internet garbage.
So I have to ask myself does spamming really work? I mean are there people out there who are guilible enough to click on a link that promises them a bigger penis? Or click on a link for a free email address, when you obviously have one already (free or not). I guess they want to flood it with so much ads that you have to get a new one. Which seems to be what more and more people are doing. Unless you take great care to never post your address on any page, you pretty much have to get a new address everyonce in a while after the sniffers have been around.
It also bothers me that my 15 year old brother gets porn in his email, and no it's not because he subscribed, despit what the end of the letter may tell you.
Most often you never subscribed to these stupid ads. Why would you want to? And yet they insist you did.
So I guess it must be working. There must be people out there clicking on these links, and there must be enough of them that these ad companies make so much money, offering 5 cents a click.
For those of you who have popups in pages you've made. Tell me, is it worth selling your soul for 5cents a click. Fooling people into coming to your page, so you can make money off them just being there?
Well I'm sure that there is stuff that I'm forgetting to mention, and this is awfully long, and no one will read it anyway, but at least I was able to vent some frusteration. If I remember something maybe I'll edit, or not.
Anyway feel free to vent your rage. I'm going to have to give this three rage emoticons
Edit: Oh yes I forgot to mention spyware, but I try to stay clear of that cr*p. I've never installed anything like that before, but last time I went to someone's house to fix their computer, I opened up internet explorer, and it had six popups before I even typed in a url.
And the way they do it is getting worse and worse. First it started with email and banners, then they started the popups, then they moved onto flash animation that you have to watch before the page loads, or popups with no close button, and now more recently sending messenger to WinXP and Win2k users through messenger. It's just so frusterating.
Really what course, or get rich quick schemes tell these people that spamming works? Don't they realize that after they do it, the whole world will hate them? They will be known as scum, the epitome of internet garbage.
So I have to ask myself does spamming really work? I mean are there people out there who are guilible enough to click on a link that promises them a bigger penis? Or click on a link for a free email address, when you obviously have one already (free or not). I guess they want to flood it with so much ads that you have to get a new one. Which seems to be what more and more people are doing. Unless you take great care to never post your address on any page, you pretty much have to get a new address everyonce in a while after the sniffers have been around.
It also bothers me that my 15 year old brother gets porn in his email, and no it's not because he subscribed, despit what the end of the letter may tell you.
Most often you never subscribed to these stupid ads. Why would you want to? And yet they insist you did.
So I guess it must be working. There must be people out there clicking on these links, and there must be enough of them that these ad companies make so much money, offering 5 cents a click.
For those of you who have popups in pages you've made. Tell me, is it worth selling your soul for 5cents a click. Fooling people into coming to your page, so you can make money off them just being there?
Well I'm sure that there is stuff that I'm forgetting to mention, and this is awfully long, and no one will read it anyway, but at least I was able to vent some frusteration. If I remember something maybe I'll edit, or not.
Anyway feel free to vent your rage. I'm going to have to give this three rage emoticons
Edit: Oh yes I forgot to mention spyware, but I try to stay clear of that cr*p. I've never installed anything like that before, but last time I went to someone's house to fix their computer, I opened up internet explorer, and it had six popups before I even typed in a url.
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