Comments on: Google, MySpace: unholy ad alliance http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17830 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17830/comment-page-1#comment-908087 Reader's Write Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:18:34 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17830#comment-908087 Here's one way to find out all the garbage that your computer is barraged with at every site you visit: Install Firefox. Configure it. Then click on Tools>Add-ons>Get Add-ons. Find and install NoScript, AdBlock Plus, CookieSafe, WOT, CookieSafe, and Flagfox just for starters. Then USE them. What you discover right off the bat will surprise the living hell out of you! What you find in the long run through NoScript will amaze you! ;) If you can't run Firefox on your non-Windows or non-Linux computer then try out a browser that has all the functions that Firefox with those Add-ons does. :D BTW: See what WOT has to say about p2pnet here: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/p2pnet.net Be sure to click the whois link. ;) ]:) Here’s one way to find out all the garbage that your computer is barraged with at every site you visit:

Install Firefox. Configure it. Then click on Tools>Add-ons>Get Add-ons. Find and install NoScript, AdBlock Plus, CookieSafe, WOT, CookieSafe, and Flagfox just for starters. Then USE them. What you discover right off the bat will surprise the living hell out of you! What you find in the long run through NoScript will amaze you! ;)

If you can’t run Firefox on your non-Windows or non-Linux computer then try out a browser that has all the functions that Firefox with those Add-ons does. :D

BTW: See what WOT has to say about p2pnet here:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/p2pnet.net

Be sure to click the whois link. ;) ]:)

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17830/comment-page-1#comment-907684 Reader's Write Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:33:17 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17830#comment-907684 It's gotten to where anywhere there is a mass of people on line, then it has to be exploitable by the advertising companies. They figure they throw enough money at it and they will eventually get in the door for the purpose of serving up ads to people that don't want it. The advertising companies are sort of like spam for all intents and purposes, a pest industry. As all the companies are raking in the dough, they don't want to upset the applecart (which would mean an end to the second income stream) so they all try to put a happy face on it about how much good they are doing what ever sites. The reality of that is the users of the net just want to turn them off and dump the ads. I've never belonged to Myspace or any of those other sites. Call it an aversion to being datamined and used, while attempting to make it already by having an EULA with enough pages to make a book. Only reason they would want such a complicated EULA is to have a place to make well hidden their little statements to the fact you have no rights on their site and agree to give up anything and everything online for the use of their site. That's something I don't agree too and will never agree too, no matter how they hide their intentions in EULAs. That they have to hide them, much less have such a large EULA tells you they up to something fishy without even having to read it. I've never agreed with EULAs and I don't today. It’s gotten to where anywhere there is a mass of people on line, then it has to be exploitable by the advertising companies. They figure they throw enough money at it and they will eventually get in the door for the purpose of serving up ads to people that don’t want it. The advertising companies are sort of like spam for all intents and purposes, a pest industry.

As all the companies are raking in the dough, they don’t want to upset the applecart (which would mean an end to the second income stream) so they all try to put a happy face on it about how much good they are doing what ever sites. The reality of that is the users of the net just want to turn them off and dump the ads.

I’ve never belonged to Myspace or any of those other sites. Call it an aversion to being datamined and used, while attempting to make it already by having an EULA with enough pages to make a book. Only reason they would want such a complicated EULA is to have a place to make well hidden their little statements to the fact you have no rights on their site and agree to give up anything and everything online for the use of their site.

That’s something I don’t agree too and will never agree too, no matter how they hide their intentions in EULAs. That they have to hide them, much less have such a large EULA tells you they up to something fishy without even having to read it. I’ve never agreed with EULAs and I don’t today.

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