German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
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German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
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Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#2Disgraceful.
One of the providers, web.de, also sends it’s users emails with advertisements which cannot be disabled or marked as spam.
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#3Well, 1&1/United Internet has a reputation for such bad behavior [1,2].
Actually it's quite easy to just enter some address and order some useless premium services "in behalf" of other people - this actually happened to a member of my family. According to consumer protection organizations this seems to be their business model [3,4].
Note that those links are in German: [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web.de#Kritik [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmx.de#Kritik [3] http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/digital/Glueckwunsch-Abz... [4] http://www.verbraucherzentrale-niedersachsen.de/link1811119A...
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#4oh web.de easily the most dangerous free mail sites there is.
it belongs to 1&1[1] one of the bigger internet companies in germany.
it's really odd that no one ever shot them down. they are famous for tricking users into shady 2 year contracts, if they wanted to upgrade their 12 mb mailbox.
they also upgraded the freemail to 500mb if and only if you would install their browser toolbar, which would change the mail server etc. now it's 1gb with toolbar i think.
they tried to force my mum into a contract, because she clicked on a banner while logging(for free xxx mb click here style banners). then promptly closed the account should she not pay.
the result was her saying fuck it i'll use gmail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%261_Internet
http://www.teltarif.de/web-de-freemail-speichererweiterung/n...
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#5Disgraceful. One of the providers, web.de, also sends it’s users emails with advertisements which cannot be disabled or marked as spam.
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#6oh web.de easily the most dangerous free mail sites there is. it belongs to 1&1[1] one of the bigger internet companies in germany. it's really odd that no one ever shot them down. they are famous for tricking users into shady 2 year contracts, if they wanted to upgrade their 12 mb mailbox. they also upgraded the freemail to 500mb if and only if you would install their browser toolbar, which would change the mail ser…
Confirmed.
I use web.de since 1998 as a spam-box, to keep my real account clean. During the last years they indeed try all tricks (we have a present for you, 3 weeks of free membership blah, blah..). If you leave this page now, the present will expire.
There is a way to simply ignore this sh..t. All of it.
But I agree that it takes discipline (germans are good at that :o). Gmail, on the other hand, cannot be trusted either. While web.de is evil, google is evil too, but google is bigger and google is not an european company. All of the data is used abroad thus circumventing civilized laws.
The real problem is this: these companies offer a service and everybody expects free services online. Of course the companies have to make money. Ask yourself: would you pay for an email account (I do)? If not, you have to accept ads. Or googles snooping in your data and selling your profile to everyone who pays. There is no free beer online. At least web.de shows us how ugly it gets, if things have to look like they were free.
This is not intended to excuse the primitive tricks we.de uses. But if you have a solution, post it here and I'll get rich.
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#7oh web.de easily the most dangerous free mail sites there is. it belongs to 1&1[1] one of the bigger internet companies in germany. it's really odd that no one ever shot them down. they are famous for tricking users into shady 2 year contracts, if they wanted to upgrade their 12 mb mailbox. they also upgraded the freemail to 500mb if and only if you would install their browser toolbar, which would change the mail ser…
Confirmed. I use web.de since 1998 as a spam-box, to keep my real account clean. During the last years they indeed try all tricks (we have a present for you, 3 weeks of free membership blah, blah..). If you leave this page now, the present will expire. There is a way to simply ignore this sh..t. All of it. But I agree that it takes discipline (germans are good at that :o). Gmail, on the other hand, cannot be trusted…
Or googles snooping in your data and selling your profile to everyone who pays.
You should really read Google's privacy policy:
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
So, no, they don't sell your profile.
I do agree with your point: if you don't want advertisements. Pay for the service. E.g. Google Apps for domains allows you to disable adds in Google apps. And since you can bring your own domain, you can move to some other service if you are not happy with them.
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#8oh web.de easily the most dangerous free mail sites there is. it belongs to 1&1[1] one of the bigger internet companies in germany. it's really odd that no one ever shot them down. they are famous for tricking users into shady 2 year contracts, if they wanted to upgrade their 12 mb mailbox. they also upgraded the freemail to 500mb if and only if you would install their browser toolbar, which would change the mail ser…
Confirmed. I use web.de since 1998 as a spam-box, to keep my real account clean. During the last years they indeed try all tricks (we have a present for you, 3 weeks of free membership blah, blah..). If you leave this page now, the present will expire. There is a way to simply ignore this sh..t. All of it. But I agree that it takes discipline (germans are good at that :o). Gmail, on the other hand, cannot be trusted…
Can you recommend a paid european mail service?
Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#9Re: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
#10I doubt even many users will be stupid enough to not only click some random fake error ad, but follow the advice of a dodgy site. Almost everyone who has adblock installed it knowingly, wanting the effect and knowing what it does.