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Over time, the internet has appeared to evolve into some kind of scum-ridden and dirty hole, full of perverts and corporate pushing. I remember when there used to be a time when a web surfer could simply search for what he wants, and do as he pleases. Nowadays, one has to be extremely careful as to what he clicks on, and what he searches for.
An example has to be when I was interested in buying a copy of SSX Tricky for my XBox. I wanted to find out a bit more about it, thus I went along to 'www.ssx.com', a perfectly fine sounding potential site. However, what I found was a porn site. Now, I am not going to stand here and condemn pornography, nor the people who browse around the net for it, I am simply asking for the sites to be relevant. I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX. OK, if it were XXX or something, it would be understandable, but SSX, nice try.
Then there was the time when I had to download a track list for a recent Jennifer Lopez album from the beloved internet. I stumbled across a perfect looking site, and before my eyes lay the track list I desired. I grabbed a pen and some paper, and lo and behold, the screen was filling up with numerous popups. A good thirty-odd pop-ups bombarded my screen, and my only option was to close the entire group of browser windows. Feeling incredibly irritated, I reopened Internet Explorer, to find that one of the popups had reset my start page to a porn site. Also, a 'neat' little porn search bar pops up when my browser starts. It had also managed to fill my favourites list with links to porn sites and online gambling sites. When I later looked at my desktop, I found cluttered with icons that linked to similar sites. Worst of all, a little program starts when my PC does, and scours the web for porn. It is hard to close it when the machine starts, because it uses so many resources, that an instruction to close it would respond five minutes later.
I have endured pop up windows and ad banners for a long time now, and am sickened by what these people can do to a legitimate PC user. There is no need to ruin his PC setup, for a matter of fact there is also no need to inundate his PC screen with popups. This, in my mind, is the most irritating thing about the internet these days, it turns it from a pleasure to use, to a pain. The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to rectify this problem before it gets out of hand. And it would be fair to say, that this won't be too far off judging by the rate of increase we are experiencing now.
An example has to be when I was interested in buying a copy of SSX Tricky for my XBox. I wanted to find out a bit more about it, thus I went along to 'www.ssx.com', a perfectly fine sounding potential site. However, what I found was a porn site. Now, I am not going to stand here and condemn pornography, nor the people who browse around the net for it, I am simply asking for the sites to be relevant. I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX. OK, if it were XXX or something, it would be understandable, but SSX, nice try.
Then there was the time when I had to download a track list for a recent Jennifer Lopez album from the beloved internet. I stumbled across a perfect looking site, and before my eyes lay the track list I desired. I grabbed a pen and some paper, and lo and behold, the screen was filling up with numerous popups. A good thirty-odd pop-ups bombarded my screen, and my only option was to close the entire group of browser windows. Feeling incredibly irritated, I reopened Internet Explorer, to find that one of the popups had reset my start page to a porn site. Also, a 'neat' little porn search bar pops up when my browser starts. It had also managed to fill my favourites list with links to porn sites and online gambling sites. When I later looked at my desktop, I found cluttered with icons that linked to similar sites. Worst of all, a little program starts when my PC does, and scours the web for porn. It is hard to close it when the machine starts, because it uses so many resources, that an instruction to close it would respond five minutes later.
I have endured pop up windows and ad banners for a long time now, and am sickened by what these people can do to a legitimate PC user. There is no need to ruin his PC setup, for a matter of fact there is also no need to inundate his PC screen with popups. This, in my mind, is the most irritating thing about the internet these days, it turns it from a pleasure to use, to a pain. The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to rectify this problem before it gets out of hand. And it would be fair to say, that this won't be too far off judging by the rate of increase we are experiencing now.
Franny wrote:
> The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to
> rectify this problem before it gets out of hand.
I see where you are coming from on this, if you are that worried turn off Javascript and cookies in your browser settings.
Apart from that, how would you propose that "the computer corporations" curb this abuse? They have to balance legitimate use against possible abuse...
> The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to
> rectify this problem before it gets out of hand.
I see where you are coming from on this, if you are that worried turn off Javascript and cookies in your browser settings.
Apart from that, how would you propose that "the computer corporations" curb this abuse? They have to balance legitimate use against possible abuse...
Franny wrote:
> I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX.
Have a look at your keyboard. The S is just below the E so you may miss hit
a key. Porn sites register names like that so people are sent to their sites if they press a wrong key when typing a URL in.
Pop-ups can't reset your start page unless you allow them too. You must have accepted to download a program for this site and it has obviously installed a load of crap which you don't want.
> I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX.
Have a look at your keyboard. The S is just below the E so you may miss hit
a key. Porn sites register names like that so people are sent to their sites if they press a wrong key when typing a URL in.
Pop-ups can't reset your start page unless you allow them too. You must have accepted to download a program for this site and it has obviously installed a load of crap which you don't want.
Over time, the internet has appeared to evolve into some kind of scum-ridden and dirty hole, full of perverts and corporate pushing. I remember when there used to be a time when a web surfer could simply search for what he wants, and do as he pleases. Nowadays, one has to be extremely careful as to what he clicks on, and what he searches for.
An example has to be when I was interested in buying a copy of SSX Tricky for my XBox. I wanted to find out a bit more about it, thus I went along to 'www.ssx.com', a perfectly fine sounding potential site. However, what I found was a porn site. Now, I am not going to stand here and condemn pornography, nor the people who browse around the net for it, I am simply asking for the sites to be relevant. I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX. OK, if it were XXX or something, it would be understandable, but SSX, nice try.
Then there was the time when I had to download a track list for a recent Jennifer Lopez album from the beloved internet. I stumbled across a perfect looking site, and before my eyes lay the track list I desired. I grabbed a pen and some paper, and lo and behold, the screen was filling up with numerous popups. A good thirty-odd pop-ups bombarded my screen, and my only option was to close the entire group of browser windows. Feeling incredibly irritated, I reopened Internet Explorer, to find that one of the popups had reset my start page to a porn site. Also, a 'neat' little porn search bar pops up when my browser starts. It had also managed to fill my favourites list with links to porn sites and online gambling sites. When I later looked at my desktop, I found cluttered with icons that linked to similar sites. Worst of all, a little program starts when my PC does, and scours the web for porn. It is hard to close it when the machine starts, because it uses so many resources, that an instruction to close it would respond five minutes later.
I have endured pop up windows and ad banners for a long time now, and am sickened by what these people can do to a legitimate PC user. There is no need to ruin his PC setup, for a matter of fact there is also no need to inundate his PC screen with popups. This, in my mind, is the most irritating thing about the internet these days, it turns it from a pleasure to use, to a pain. The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to rectify this problem before it gets out of hand. And it would be fair to say, that this won't be too far off judging by the rate of increase we are experiencing now.
An example has to be when I was interested in buying a copy of SSX Tricky for my XBox. I wanted to find out a bit more about it, thus I went along to 'www.ssx.com', a perfectly fine sounding potential site. However, what I found was a porn site. Now, I am not going to stand here and condemn pornography, nor the people who browse around the net for it, I am simply asking for the sites to be relevant. I cannot for the life of me understand how SSX can relate to SEX. OK, if it were XXX or something, it would be understandable, but SSX, nice try.
Then there was the time when I had to download a track list for a recent Jennifer Lopez album from the beloved internet. I stumbled across a perfect looking site, and before my eyes lay the track list I desired. I grabbed a pen and some paper, and lo and behold, the screen was filling up with numerous popups. A good thirty-odd pop-ups bombarded my screen, and my only option was to close the entire group of browser windows. Feeling incredibly irritated, I reopened Internet Explorer, to find that one of the popups had reset my start page to a porn site. Also, a 'neat' little porn search bar pops up when my browser starts. It had also managed to fill my favourites list with links to porn sites and online gambling sites. When I later looked at my desktop, I found cluttered with icons that linked to similar sites. Worst of all, a little program starts when my PC does, and scours the web for porn. It is hard to close it when the machine starts, because it uses so many resources, that an instruction to close it would respond five minutes later.
I have endured pop up windows and ad banners for a long time now, and am sickened by what these people can do to a legitimate PC user. There is no need to ruin his PC setup, for a matter of fact there is also no need to inundate his PC screen with popups. This, in my mind, is the most irritating thing about the internet these days, it turns it from a pleasure to use, to a pain. The computer corporations should spend some money and time trying to rectify this problem before it gets out of hand. And it would be fair to say, that this won't be too far off judging by the rate of increase we are experiencing now.