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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:00 AM
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Post your internet pet peeves here! I'll start with...
Pop Up Ads on websites that already have tons of ads on them already!

GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

I also hate having to wait for banner ads to "come in" (churning and churning) while the article I've clicked on is already in plain view, but I can't scroll down until the banner ads have appeared!
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:02 AM
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1. spam
I can't believe anyone buys anything from spam, but apparently many people do and then LIE about it.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:05 AM
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3. I'm getting 20 times as much spam as I used to get.
With a Yahoo email account, most of it goes into the bulk folder, which I have to clean out at least twice a day.

If I had a penis, I would be insulted 50 times a day by enlargement spam emails alone!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:17 AM
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6. SPAM doesn't have to work very much.
Because it's so cheap, if they snare ONE person with their ad they've paid for the million emails they sent out.
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:02 AM
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2. On the email internet: spam, on the www internet: poor navigation/design
There's so many internets.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:07 AM
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4. spyware/adware.
A slow and painful death upon the person that came up with that concept. :argh:
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:11 AM
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5. send them to Iraq
instead of re-instituting the draft
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:34 AM
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11. I Second That!!!!
Our 800-MHz HP computer wound up with so much spyware on it that it's become unusable. I had to fix up our old 200-MHz Packard Bell last night, so that Mrs. CO Liberal would have something to use that wouldn't lock up all the time. Now I have to figure out how to get the HP cleaned up.

I believe that anyone who writes spyware should be locked up for all eternity in a cell with Ann Couter.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:38 AM
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12. Ann Coulter's too good for them.
I'm not the violent knee jerk type, but I would like to take a 2x4 and smack them repeatedly with it. Whoever thought that such a thing was a good idea deserves it.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:22 AM
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7. Pop-UNDER ads, all of the major media players,
the Microsoft weird HTML "that's not a bug, that's a feature" features, websites with unfriendly font sizes - either way too large or way too small...

I could go on and on and on and on...
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RebelYell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:26 AM
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8. Websites...
with a black background and a white font. Ouch.
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getoffmytrain Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:29 AM
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9. My biggest issue
is the prevailing truth that most everything on the web is a lie... in other words, it's all marketing BS.

THere should be a part of the web that is purely informational and another part that is purely commercial and the two should never collide. After all, have you ever seen a library in the middle of a mall?
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:33 AM
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10. "Free" porn...yeah, right!!
It's never free! Dammit.
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 11:45 AM
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13. The University of Phoenix-
a pox on all their houses.
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