When I was younger, I visited some websites that I probably shouldn’t have. Yes, I’m talking about porn. We all did it right? So, we all saw the same ads. Ads that we’ve been forever warned about will lead to the AIDs counterpart of our computers, so we better not ever click them. A lot of those adds were for things like other porn or a random s-r-w site. Sure, I’d heard of mail order brides from television and movie shows, but I found the whole concept to be interesting as a teenager, so I clicked the ads and found myself browsing through hundreds of pictures of good looking women.
I suppose this has been replaced by on-page dating site ads. After all, most people use popup blockers these days, so those types of ads are simply less effective. There’s also an appeal to seeing the smiling and attractive face (and cleavage) or a local man or woman, whether or not she’s real. But I digress.
This train of thought leads me to an article that I recently read where a man was fixing his son’s computer and found quite a bit of porn in its history. Rather than punish or scold him, he left a message explaining how dangerous those types of websites are and told his son he was open to answer any questions if his son felt the need arise. There was a bit of sex negativity, which I didn’t love, but the father probably handled the situation better than my own mother would have.
However, the story made me laugh because I don’t think, in all my time on the Internet, I’ve ever gotten a horrible virus from a porn site. From looking at Google images for totally innocuous sites? Yes. From files sent directly to me from people I knew? Sure. From those stupid MSN hijacking viruses? You betcha, but as afar as I can tell, porn sites, dating sites and Russian bride sites all want my money, so they’re not going to crash my computer.
I’d guess this whole thing is an old (Russian) wive’s tale. It’s a social virus more than anything.
Sex Toy Retailers That Use Comments for Spam
May 31st, 2012
I’m sick of this shit, you guys. I get so many spam comments, and Akismet is great at catching them, but it seems like sex toy retailers think comment spam is okay. You know what? It’s not. Not today. Not yesterday. Not ever. In fact, I have a few more thoughts on this:
Thus, without further ado, here is a list of evildoers. Please send me the spammers who wind up in your comments folder, and I’ll add them, too!
Please link this post, if you like it. If you’re in the habit of sometimes shopping around for toys and sometimes user lesser-known sites, making the effort to avoid these goes a long way to the blogger community and to promoting respect, transparent tactics and professionalism in the long run.
If you’re on this list, there’s nothing you can do to remove yourself from it. Sorry that you’re an asshole.
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