For some inconceivably stupid reason, my pharmacy (a national chain) is telemarketing current customers with an auto-dialer with a message about “getting ready for allergy season.” It’s an amazingly efficient way to turn happy customers into angry enemies. They’ve called me four times, and four times I called my store to get off the list. [...]
Tag Archives: spam
Should we forgive the sleazy behavior once companies get famous?
Many famous dot-coms did a lot of sleazy, spammy things in their early days. AOL, Microsoft, and other major players in the online advertising industry bought and absorbed some very ugly promoters of pop-ups, spam, and deceptive ad practices. Today, startup Thumbtack is shamelessly harvesting emails off of Craigslist and mass-spamming fake personal emails to [...]
Zombies on my doorstep: End the phone book spam
I came home to find the walking dead waiting on my doorstep: phone books. Nobody asked for them. They just print them up and hand them out. 615 million phone books are printed every year. This is a filthy waste of resources: printing, delivery, landfill. Let’s end this already. At the very least, phone books [...]
Congratulations to Facebook for fighting the spammers
Facebook just won a $712 million lawsuit against spammer Sanford Wallace. They deserve our support and congratulations for doing this. The bigger question: Why aren’t more companies doing more to stop spammers? The major email providers should sue the crap out of every spammer on earth. They won’t win often, but they’ll scare enough of [...]
Cleaning up fake reviews
Kudos to TripAdvisor for exposing businesses suspected of posting fake reviews. Read the full story from MSNBC. Everyone wins when consumer reviews are clean and honest: Publishers thrive when readers trust their sites Consumers get fair and accurate reviews Scummy liars who post fake reviews get busted Folks, we're at an important time in history [...]
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