Posts Tagged ‘Spam
Trackback Spam Gateway
It’s over. My referrer experiment is over… at least, in its current form. Today, I roll out firsttube.com referrer gateway version 1.0. That makes it sound fancy, but it’s not. Basically, it’s PHP to prevent trackback spam.
Traffic at firsttube.com has grown steadily, for some reason, and the logs reveal it: we [...]
Trackback Spam, Again
Once again, I am dealing with trackback spam, aka referrer spam. Since firsttube.com records the pages that refer hits to us, I’ve had to deal with jerks who issue HTTP requests so that they get a link back. Too bad they don’t realize that every referrer gets a rel=”nofollow” attribute (more here).
So, I [...]
ReCaptcha is a Smart Ass!
ReCaptcha thinks it knows me, huh? It started calling me names today.
Suckered by a Spam Text Scam
I got scammed.
I got a text message yesterday that said “Free Msg from Verizon Wireless: We have new calling plans for UNLIMITED text to anyone in the US. Requires new customer agreement. Call 877-256-XXXX. To opt out reply X.”
This type of message is not completely unseen on my phone network. I’ve [...]
Pwned!
This morning, I checked my Gmail and found that I had received 203 comments on firsttube.com last night. In case you don’t realize how odd this is, I typically get 1-2 comments a day max, unless a particular discussion gets moving, and then it might be 10 at best.
These 203 comments were [...]
Trackback Spam
There is a new trend out there, one that hasn’t received much coverage, but it’s a big deal, and it’s getting bigger. As user generated content becomes more and more prevalent, we have a new type of spam out there: trackback spam. On my blog, beneath all of the entries (above the comments), [...]
Reinventing E-mail
There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few months about the rapid increase in spam e-mailings, defined loosely by one website as “mass-delivered, unrequested advertising delivered via email or discussion groups.” Many have wondered what should be done, but few have proposed anything truly worthwhile.
X10 cameras – f them.
Do people actually buy the X10 web camera? If so, do they actually buy it from pop-up ads? That’s the question of the day.
Honestly, that friggin ad follows me all over the damned internet. You’d think it was just that necessary, “Hey, buying a CD…why not pick up an X10 too?” [...]
