On Dec 29, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Dec 29, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
For example, why on Hell should a site or list dedicated to,
say, Linux, include advertisings about Viagra?
Because someone, somewhere, has decided that we all need to see ads
for Viagra every hour of the day, no matter where we are, and no
matter how relevant they are to what we're doing at the moment. I
suspect that that person works for the ad agency that's promoting
Viagra.
(And apparently they're determined enough to get those ads in front
of us that they don't mind people going to what would be heroic
lengths to defeat even the strongest email spam filters to get them
into our email inboxes, as well.)
Apparently, it takes about 12 million spam emails to generate one
response. That's why you are offered the opportunity to purchase
Viagra (or Cialis or Extenze or...) a couple of hundred times a day.
The reason that you are offered that opportunity on a SciFi Wiki (or
any other place where Viagra is nowhere even close to the topic of the
site) is that web sites are desperate to monetize themselves. I hate
web advertising mainly because it _could_ be targeted, but it isn't.
But also because it is intentionally disruptive.
Dave
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