Sick Of Advertising, Spam, marketing tricks

[fubr]

I understand, I get it! You have to get people to see your product and let them know you have a service.
BUT For FUCKS SAKE!!!

I tried to type in a phrase in google,
it returns 326,000 results,,,,,,ok cool right

FUCK NO! The first 20 or so every God Damn one is a page about a better search engine other than google or a link to a place that sells the shit I want to read about.
I dont want to buy it I want to read about it

I mean fuck me, enough is enough, I click on a link that says the exact phrase I am searching only to be sent to a page telling me to register with a email and I can see the answer

I might as well have Shat in a sack and wrote google on it, it would have been as helpful as the worthless search the returned.

My dad, hell he subscribes to an audio service, PAYS FOR IT and before each use he has to listen to a 3 minutes fuckin add, cant click thru, cant skip it.

DOnt even get me started on subscribing for charlie watching more comercials than programs...
ANYWAY It pissed me off I felt like venting.

I am not against adds, BUT damn, dont bombard us. they are everywhere

[lefty]

I agree, the net is now a newstand, a magazine store packed with blown in flyers. And a bad one at that.

I can't imagine living in a world with advertising like was shown in 'Minority Report". I'd simply go mad.

Can't even get a driver for a piece of hardware without registering.

[mikepr]

Its gotten real bad lately.....maybe last year or so....I remember doing alot of research before with the searches and things wernt nearly as bad today......But now there are times when I say screw this and another thing..you click on the different links and it directs you back to the same freaking usless page !!!!

[Nightman]

What I hate is I go a google, Click on what I want and end up at another search engine.

[mannybeef]

you are one smart mofo!!!!

it used to be random search , and included most hits that were derived from the terms searched.

now they take one term and find 1000 ads and promotions that go along with that and pack the others iin the back somwhere.

shit is crazy.

just wait till they start the internet tax program.
it will get worse.

peace

[mili]

You ever read Frederic Pohl's "Merchants of Space"? Something that seems less and less fantastic as I grow older.

mili

[skinerd]

Those ads show up first, cause they pay google to put them up first......

[fubr]

You ever read Frederic Pohl's "Merchants of Space"? Something that seems less and less fantastic as I grow older.

mili
No buy I will check it out.
I typed it in google and found a bunch of places to buy it and places telling me where I can go to find places to buy it.

[SuperManny]

What kills me is all the g*ddamn spam I get. I have NEVER clicked on ANYTHING from a spam email, but I still get inundated with it. If I'm interested in anything I use a search engine.

I have even set up email addresses and NEVER gave out the addy to anyone, just to see what would happen, and I still got spam on it.

[Nightman]

That is called phishing. They hope you will respond to see if it is a valid addy. Then add it to their list they will sell to others...Welcome to the real world. They just send tons of made up addy's just waiting for some sucker. I just delete mail from unknowns. I hear that even just opening to read can send info back to some of them.

[JT]

You ever read Frederic Pohl's "Merchants of Space"? Something that seems less and less fantastic as I grow older.

mili

Just read a few reviews of that book, and just placed an order at Amazon.com for it. Sounds like a great book even though the consensus seems to be the ending is a little weak. The idea of congressmen representing corperations instead of states or people sold me on it. Gee, I wonder if that might be going on right now in America?:)

[Nightman]

Just read a few reviews of that book, and just placed an order at Amazon.com for it. Sounds like a great book even though the consensus seems to be the ending is a little weak. The idea of congressmen representing corperations instead of states or people sold me on it. Gee, I wonder if that might be going on right now in America?:)
Welcome to the real world

[mili]

I read that book about 25 years ago. Pohl definately nailed it even then. I recommend it to all Sci-Fi fans.

mili

[smilingjack]

Arther C. Clarke wrote Sci-Fi too
In the 1950 he inverted satellite's that bought TV into homes
He had PRON too.
He didn't Encrypt them
"Clarke belt" That where sat call 'home'
.
Frederic Pohl's "Merchants of Space" Is a series they are all good

[Birdie]

Whats getting me wild are these goddamn telemarketers. Fuck them. Dishnet is one of the worst. So I got smart and joined the " No call list" Now these assholes telemarketers call the cell phone. Absoultly feed up with it. I don't even answer the phone anymore unless I know who it is.

[skinerd]

Whats getting me wild are these goddamn telemarketers. Fuck them. Dishnet is one of the worst. So I got smart and joined the " No call list" Now these assholes telemarketers call the cell phone. Absoultly feed up with it. I don't even answer the phone anymore unless I know who it is.

I registered all my numbers on th do not call list, still get calls, prolly could take some kind of legal action against them, but that could take years.

Now I just, at the top of my lungs, yell "STOP FUCKEN CALLING ME".

If the caller is a recording, just press 1 before the sales pitch, get a live person and let them know how you feel...........lol.........

[Ohms]

You guys need to pay attention to mannybeef. You think the spam pisses you off? Wait till you have to pay for it out of your pocket. Think I'm kidding?

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C&P
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Trust me on this one guys.. This shit is for real! A friend of mine that works deep within AT&T sent this to me this morning.

[smilingjack]

I like to see tax on E-Mail and a penalty on virus & pop ups

[Nightman]

Spammers will add that cost on to their sponser as the cost of doing business. Plus it won't affect out of the US people.

[smilingjack]

It should slow thing down a little bit.

What we really need is a program
not to delete them
That goes after them
That junk mail (senders) and the places that put them there
If each computer sent a e-mail to them..... every 10 minutes
They will have a hard time doing business and the (senders) Will get thrown off the servers (DDos)

[Ohms]

All it will slow down is the disposable income for the average Joe. This will be charged by your ISP. You will pay or you won't play, just like your phone bill.

[mikepr]

whats the average price for dsl service in the U.S these days..would love to know what people are paying

[Ohms]

Basic aDSL which is 1.5Mbps down and 256k up starts at 14.95/month in major metropolitan areas. Many cable companies are charging $50/mo for 4-6 megs, but it's not reliable bandwidth. All it takes is one or two teenagers in the neighborhood with limewire to bring you to your knees.

[smilingjack]

Maybe were you at
my DSL (Yahoo) & phone co.

was $ 20 on sale for 1 year. after that it went to $ 42 per month

Don't forget the $30 for the phone co. to install
And the $ 10 per month for the DSL Line.

so it was $ 30 per mo
and it want to $ 52 per mo after that.

[Ohms]

I said STARTS AT. :)

[lobogobo]

I registered all my numbers on th do not call list, still get calls, prolly could take some kind of legal action against them, but that could take years.

Now I just, at the top of my lungs, yell "STOP FUCKEN CALLING ME".

If the caller is a recording, just press 1 before the sales pitch, get a live person and let them know how you feel...........lol.........


I do the same thing. I get two calls a day. If they speak with an accent, (such as east indian) I tell them that I can't understand them. That realy ticks them off. They get all flusterd.