Grant Shapps, Government Minister and Web Spammer
You know those so-called “splogs” or spam blogs that have sprung up like Kudzu all over the web? They’re made up entirely of contact scraped from other sides and served up slathered in advertising....
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Comment spam getting smarter?
If you run a blog, one of the maintenance chores is dealing with comment spam. They’re usually easy to recongise; either banal “This is a really informative post” or surreal bot-generated gibberish....
View ArticleSpam, Spam, Spam, Spam…
If the best software engineers working for my ISP cannot prevent my email inbox from overflowing with “male enhancement” spam, what do you think are the chances of David Cameron’s porn filters working...
View ArticleSpam!
Moments after I mentioned on Twitter that I was seeing very little spam in my inbox compared to a couple of years ago, my inbox started getting flooded with “Undeliverable mail” return messages because...
View ArticleComment Spam.
Because of the amount of bandwidth comment spammers have been eating, I have turned off comments on older posts. Hopefully this shouldn’t have much effect on the quality of blog conversations, because...
View ArticleWhat If?
I wonder what the internet would have looked like had micropayments for content been the default model rather than advertising? Had that happened, then I bet spam would have been far less of a problem.
View ArticleWe Get Comments
Found in the spam filter: have to convey as a result of you actually regarding saving myself out of this style of scenario. Right after browsing through the world wide web as well as meeting techniques...
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Autoplay Video Ads Must Die
I know websites that don’t rely on paywalls need to raise money somehow, but I know I’m not the only person who is thoroughly sick of the auto play video ads with audio that have started infesting many...
View ArticleTrolls Are The New Spam
Abi Sutherland made a very good point on Twitter a couple of days ago comparing the troll problem with the spam problem. A few years back, spam threatened to overwhelm the internet. Our email inboxes...
View ArticleThe economics of the web is broken.
It’s a shame almost all news sites need “promoted links” to sleazy cynical bottom-feeding clickbait garbage to remain viable. They lower the tone of every site, and actually clicking on one is like...
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