just cureious...

cathodraytube · #1 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

just cruious... if we all hate scam sites that claim to give you "100%free and legal music downloads" and there are so many threads about avoiding them....THEN WHY ARE THER ADS FOR THEM AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN IN THE GNUTELLA FORUMS???!!!???

if they need advertizing here ,why dont they put up ads for stuff like cars, ciggarets, t shirts, toilet paper or ******l hygine products insted of THE EXACT THING WERE TRYING TO AVOID??

this is what im seeing at the top of the screen when im in here:
"Download Free Music Today
100% Free & Legal Music Downloads Over 30,000 Favorites To Select
Free -Music Downloads
Download Unlimited Songs for Free 100% Legal - Gnutella Network ! "

id much rather see an ad for toilet paper then that crap.

Lord of the Rings · #2 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

THis might answer your question http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28840
And yes we do have them filtered out. But new ones keep coming or they change the address slightly.

cathodraytube · #3 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

how exactley can they get away with inserting ads into this website?? cant you (or whoever is in charge and maintains the sever) just like make the file that is the website "read onley" ...er somthing?

or you could at least put a big fat disclaimer pointing to them saying "THESE ADS ARE SCAMS,PLEASE IGNOR THEM , SORRY BUT WE ARENT PUTTING THEM THERE ON PERPUS AND CANT GET RID OF THEM ".

Lord of the Rings · #4 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

It has something to do with the site being sponsored by google or google ads. That's how it pays for itself I believe. We add those ads to a ban list every week. It takes some days before the ban takes effect. But there's so many & as I said, they use different addresses so some keep coming back. It's as annoying as hell. I'm not directly in the line for doing that. It's up to the site admins. I just contact them with the new addresses & sites. Pity a more comprehensive filter couldn't be used.

ukbobboy01 · #5 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

Dear CRT

I agree with you, scam adverts should be banned but even if they were newbies would still find their way to the scam sites.

From reading through various threads, most newbies (if not all of them) find their way to scam sites by googling, not by the adverts seen at the top of this forum. They only find this forum after they have a problem, which is usually after they have paid their money to a scammer, and get no response from their 24/7 nonexistent help line.

Unfortunately CRT, newbies get scammed because they are over eager, do no research and, above all, seem not to use their common sense before parting with their money.

The internet is a perpetual gold mine of commerce, information and communication. No wonder there are so many scammers on the internet because, as said before (well over a hundred years ago), "There's gold in a fools pocket, there's lots of it and its easier to get".

Sorry CRT, you can't protect people who will jump first and look later.

UK Bob

cathodraytube · #6 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2005

good point.....the newbis just have to lern for them selfs i guss.

i was one too once...i payed 30$ for KAZAAplus when i first got into filesharing. the 30$ copy of kazaa was suposed to not have any spyware/bundles with it, but it did and it killed my computer within a month of installing it.

that reely sucked....kazaa was horribul.