More SPAM stopping trials, no luck
I’ve been experimenting on ways to nip comment SPAM in the bud. Ever since noticing that Google sent me more robots than humans, I’ve been really frustrated. This is the scenario. Bot starts up, bot queries Google to see who shows up in the top 20 results for keyword ‘fud’, bot sees if each result [...]
So I committed blogger suicide, I banned Googlebot
Google sends me (almost) nothing but spammers who hope to plant links to gain page rank. Very seldom does a Google referrer ever result in a long term user. Usually, it results in yet another spammer trying to plant links. If I write something before the major tech sites get wind of it, I’m buried [...]
Comment spammers hit a new low
I found this in my Akismet queue today: Helga | sveta@yandex.com | chaudlac.info/1986-for-f150 | IP: 222.92.69.125 Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children uganda Not Spam — Dec 30, 8:58 PM — [ View Post ] Sometimes, all you can do is chuckle.
Why the sudden surge in comment SPAM?
Holy Viagra Batman! In the last two weeks, my Akismet binspam has nearly quadrupled on average, some days even more than quadrupled. The odd thing about this is that I have not been posting very much (perhaps once a week) and can’t find any new & authoritative back links leading to me. What the heck! [...]
To advertisers, privacy just isn’t practical
I was just reading an article from the Associated Press discussing the strategy of a new start-up advertising company. Now, advertisers want to put little black boxes in ISP data centers to analyze what we do on-line. ISP’s are going for it, because they get a share of the revenue generated by advertisement campaigns that [...]
Revenge of the nerds
I saw a re-run of “Revenge Of The Nerds” recently, the gears in my head have been turning ever since. In seventh grade, the captain of the school wrestling team stuffed my head in a toilet and flushed it several times. Not any toilet, a ‘public school boy’s room’ toilet. In eighth grade, an over-developed [...]
How long should e-mail wait?
Perhaps a better title to this blurb might be “How long does buried junk live in the Slashdot Firehose before dying?”. I submitted a simple question a few months, back, its in no danger of being run, so I’m asking it here. How long do you wait for replies to e-mails before wondering why you [...]
Sore losers
When Google updated their page rank statistics, I did not get upset. Some of my sites went up, some went down, some stayed the same. That’s what always happens. I don’t run massive internally linked networks of click traps, so I was not a target of their crackdown. Starting at around 4:00 AM yesterday, one [...]
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