Tag: spam
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Google Adsense Ads Removed
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, or even decades I have had Google Adsense on my site, and I have been paid several times over the years. In recent years though Google Adsense has flooded my site with ads, but has not flooded me with revenue so yesterday I removed the ads. For a while we…
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Of Glossy Mags and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago I liked to get mags. I would look at the choice of mags every time I was in a magazine shop. I would even buy some every so often. Eventually I stopped I stopped, not because my desire to get mags was gone, but because the return on investment…
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On the Detrimental impact of Chain Letters on Social Networks
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the 90s, people found it fun to share chain letters. At the time, this was something new to many of us, so we found them fun. We received and then passed them on, but over the volume of chain letters become a torrent of spam. The letter is fun the first…
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Twitter’s spam problem
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is an easy to solve problem that Twitter has yet to correct. Spammers create an account and send @username hyperlink. This type of spam would be tremendously easy to eliminate yet twitter does nothing of the sort. A simple filter would be enough to prevent such posts from taking place.