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10-07-2001, 07:57 AM
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Internet Advertising: has it gone too far?

I was just now looking at Molluck's FF7 forum... and found what has to be the worst form of advertising ever.

Molluck's forum is hosted on ezBoard (just like Oddworld Forums used to be). As many of you know, ezBoard is now full of pop-up advertisements, which are quite annoying, but you just close them anyway.

Well you would not believe what came up when I was over there ... a pop-up advertisement that asked you to install something.

Now I think this is totally wrong. Sure places need money, but to ask you to install software, IMO this is wrong. Who knows what kind of program it could be or even if it is safe/compatible with other software on your system.

The majority of forum users are teenagers and some may think it's needed for the forum and click "yes" to install anyway. If I were a parent I would be pretty pissed off that a site my kid went to made them install some useless software just to run an advertisement (or who knows what).

Resorting to this kind of lowness in advertising is the kind of stuff adult sites revert to.

I'm just glad that Oddworld Forums is no longer over there anymore.

Abe Babe...
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