watchin Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 I was just looking at a forum entry. At the bottom there was one of the flag ads for "Free copies of Photoshop CS". Like an idiot I clicked on the URL, it is a scam ad for "we'll ship you a Photoshop CS upgrade IF you are a smoker and allow us to send you all the shit in the world." type of ad. WHY ARE THESE ON PHOTO.NET?? Now I can't even trust this site to be shit free! Come on guys, I know it takes funding to run the site, but why do we permit this. If this is a google ad then you need to get google to clean up thier act or dump them. If everyone did this then the junk spam would STOP. Please do something about this and don't bother with the platitudes. Thanks, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 It probably was Google. We don't have very many direct advertisers, and this is not one of them. I find that Google has a pretty good track record in policing their advertisers but once in a while a bad one slips through. If you notice a suspicious ad in the future, please record enough details about who the advertiser was so that we can report it to Google. On the few occasions when it has been necessary to call their attention to problem advertisers, Google has been pretty response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchin Posted June 29, 2005 Author Share Posted June 29, 2005 Brian, The ad WAS a google ad and it appeared on this thread<br> http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00CicB&unified_p=1 But as soon as I got back to the thread it was gone from the list. Looking back in my history list (why didn't I think of that?? duh.) the URL appears to be http://www.everyfreegift.com/landings/ups_search_shipping.jsp? pixel=6&p1=2&p2=2&p3=2&category_id=&email=nospam_skipper@ yahoo.com&product_id=4316&pid=1844165673&cid=4316&lid=&ofpath=&bid=47 Hope that's enough information to help. Greg Note - because of the crippled html rules here the above links are text even though I tried to put this in HTML... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 The crippling of HTML (for the SPAN tag, etc.) doesn't extend to links, as far as I know. A link to ripoff.com is produced by <a href="http://www.ripoff.com/">ripoff.com</a> -- or at least that's the way it was when I last tried, perhaps as recently as yesterday. Your URL contains ampersands: any "&" within an URL must be converted to "&" -- but this is general, not specific to PN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 <p>Hurried PS:</p><p>Maybe there has been a change. I wrote the message above as plain text, with no expectation that a link would be created from it.</p><p>Well, I don't claim to know what happens when you submit potential links within what you tell PN is plain text. (I seldom use plain text. I used it that time in order to avoid the bother of "<" etc etc.) However, if you tell PN that you're dishing it HTML, conventionally marked up links within this seem to work fine.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 If you enter the text as HTML, we assume you know how to do your own links and leave it alone. If you say it is "Plain Text", urls are made hot by the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I've used Google's filtering feature to block everyfreegift.com. The filtering is a new feature for us, and I'm not sure I specified it correctly. (In the past, I sent emails and it got taken care of after a day or two, but maybe the filtering will be quicker.) If anybody notices this ad again, please post here. By the way, I'm not convinced this is a scam. It is possible that if you actually jumped through all their hoops and signed up for the "offers" that they require you to sign up for, that you would get some kind of Photoshop CS upgrade. But I kind of doubt it, and I'm not willing to sign up for the offers in order to find out. Even if it isn't a scam, it is cheesy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchin Posted June 30, 2005 Author Share Posted June 30, 2005 Thanks Brian !! As for the link stuff... curious my reply now has a live link in it... I had used the <link href=... title=... > form, I'll try the <a href=www.junk.com >some dumb link</a> approach next time thanks for the pointer. As for this being a scam... it's a spam collector, I've tripped it before and gotten DOZENS of emails about all kinds of trash from all over. The sequence I saw was a) register for a prize b) attempt to complete the hoops c) within two days your mailbox fills with junk mail, spam, porn, trojans, worms, and all the rest of the nasty stuff. That is why I was upset and backed out as soon as I saw the actual url location. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy_graceforth Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 GJ - you could always help reduce this sites reliance on adverts by subscribing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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