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Yahoo Homepage – Now Featuring Extra-Scammy Scams

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Post by RandomCode »

I had a 1440 SAT, 740 Math 700 Verbal.

I was one of only 7 national merit finalists in the freshman class of ASU in 1988. 42,000 total students.

I wrote the entire TempleOS from scratch. 130,000 lines of code.

I have a master's in electrical engineering from ASU.

http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf

In 1985, I was tested with a 165 IQ in a sociology class.

The mental health meds, as the doctors will brag, make your brain smaller and make you impotent and sterile and shorten your life. Yumm.

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Post by tim333 »

blumkvist wrote: post #2

>Do companies like Brainstorm Elite ever pay the price for wholesale fraud and the theft of brand identities? Yes, they do. The FTC takes them for every penny they got. At least the big ones. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark...

Whereupon their creators it seems walk away and start the next dodgy company. Glancing at the Atlantic article "Jesse Willms is doing just fine financially—and he has a new yellow Lamborghini to prove it" and is advertising "just $1 for a vehicle-history report" and then billing $199 to peoples credit cards. Methinks the laws could be tightened a tad.

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Post by vdaniuk »

nugget wrote: post #7

This is the dark side of the massive shift to programmatic ad buying and selling which nobody wants to talk about. Compliance has largely been tossed aside in search of maximum yield. Sad but definitely the trend for the future.

Do you have any citation for this? I am not seeing more bad actors when working with various programmatic ad exchanges.

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Post by bad_user »

I was originally against ad-blockers, because it provides me with an incentive to look for alternatives and I also want to reward websites that don't do this shit.

However, it's because of scams and malware pushed by means of ads that I started using ad-blockers myself and I recommend it to all my non-technical friends.

It's also the reason for why on my Android I'm now using Firefox. For Google to not provide at least a glimpse of a plan for Chrome's add-ons support on Android is unacceptable, for one because I now expect my browser to have add-ons support and I originally started using Chrome based on this expectation and because on mobile these websites are even more aggressive in pushing their ads. And with Firefox I can use AdBlock Plus on my Android, with uBlock coming soon.

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