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freddurgan
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Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now
#3810308 - 02/21/05 09:52 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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What's the point? NOBODY clicks on those stupid ads. Nobobdy buys pills from an e-mail that is half numbers and half random words advertising FR*&R$&EE PI,.,.xdedLLLS!
It doesn't happen! Why do spammers even keep spamming? Why do pop-up ad makers keep doing it?
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: freddurgan]
#3810325 - 02/21/05 09:57 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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You know what, I'd like to know too, because it pisses me off as well.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: freddurgan]
#3810337 - 02/21/05 10:01 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah there was just this thing on the news last night about advertising and shit. how there is way too much and it's hurting itself.
anyway, i can't stand it either. it's such a damn waste too.. no one fucking listens or reads any of it.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: drtyfrnk]
#3810347 - 02/21/05 10:04 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, most of them have so many intentional misspellings to avoid being filter out that I don't think anyone is going to trust a $200,000 loan from a random e-mail.
I think the only way those would work is if a blind person randomly clicked in certain places and randomly typed in their credit card number at the right time.
And the chances of that are about 1 in 38,543,028,418 that it will happen(I did some calculations). All they need to do is send out that much spam, which they do, and they'll make a few dollars.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: Twirling]
#3810504 - 02/21/05 10:45 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think they are making money from some stupid people, and thats why they do it.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: Rebirtha]
#3810584 - 02/21/05 11:01 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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yea, you figure if they send out a million emails, atlest 10,000 people are stupid enough to click on them, and atleast 5000 accidently click them, so they get 1/2 a cent for every click, and eventualy they make money, if only in small amounts at a time. just about every one of those click thru advertisments makes it to where you have to have earned x amount of dollars or you get squat, so they have to do more... and more, and more... its pretty lame
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: freddurgan]
#3810677 - 02/21/05 11:30 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
freddurgan said: What's the point? NOBODY clicks on those stupid ads. Nobobdy buys pills from an e-mail that is half numbers and half random words advertising FR*&R$&EE PI,.,.xdedLLLS!
It doesn't happen! Why do spammers even keep spamming? Why do pop-up ad makers keep doing it?
I got curious and priced a Benzo script. Then i proceeded to tell them that at that rate, my doc. could die tomorrow, and I could still get the stuff off the streets cheaper than he can get it, lol. But, as much of an asshole he is, They will not stop. Somebody is buying, they will make pop-ups as long as somebody is paying them to do so. period.
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freddurgan
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: SunshinePounder]
#3810723 - 02/21/05 11:43 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sigh. I'm sorely dissapointed in all the people who allow spammers to make money.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: freddurgan]
#3810816 - 02/21/05 12:06 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I honestly fantasize about murdering people who create spyware, popups, and spam.
The government...
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: freddurgan]
#3810896 - 02/21/05 12:25 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I havent seen a popup or spam in over a year. there are ways to avoid that shit.
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: Vvellum]
#3810900 - 02/21/05 12:26 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
bi0 said: I havent seen a popup or spam in over a year. there are ways to avoid that shit.
same here....
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: Jim]
#3810951 - 02/21/05 12:39 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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yea, firefox with adblock totaly rock, i love blocking a new ad, and watching the whole page transform and like, 9 pictures disappear from the page... only to never return
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Re: Pop-up ads and spam are just out of spite now [Re: Phychotron]
#3811023 - 02/21/05 01:01 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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yep, me too. Only time I get a popup is when I open ie
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