Daily Deal: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Pro Security 2-Year Subscription
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept
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Actually, this is exactly advertising is content -- and seeing how many people actually click on and buy stuff every day, many of our readers appear to appreciate the deals. We are presenting potential deals for users, and many of them appreciate it. That's a win-win. People are getting something they want to buy and we make some money in the process.
It seems a lot better than invasive pop ups or selling your information or anything like that.
This is very much a great example of advertising as content. And, from the numbers, a very large number of our readers find it content they not only appreciate, but wish to spend money on.
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These posts are clearly not presented as news articles -- but as part of our daily deal feature. They are clearly marked as deals posts, and from the response to them, plenty of people seem to appreciate the deals and take part in them.
We are not misrepresenting anything. We are not presenting "news" that we are being paid for. I do not understand your complaint other than you don't like these deal posts. It is not that difficult to ignore them if that's the case.
And, yes, these deals do help us stay in business. We do them instead of invasive things like selling data, pop ups, or other nefarious things. Would you prefer we make no money at all and not be able to publish anything?
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It says right there:
DAILY DEAL and at the end of the title (Deals)
HOW on earth would you ever consider this a story?
It's tiny. I could scroll right past it.
EVEN THE PERSON POSTING IS USING THE NAME DAILY DEAL...WITH A TAG THAT SPECIFICALLY SAYS good-deals-on-cool-stuff.
HOW on earth would you ever consider this a story?
Not to mention...
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There is no way one could even believe that this is a story.
This is actually one of the few sites nowadays that will even load all the way for me at work. Even CNN's site is so full of ad garbage in the background that our content filter won't even let it load.
I would much prefer this kind of advertising across the board. Not nearly as intrusive as most of the advertising out there.
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Feb of this year...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/security-software-found-using-superfish-style-code-as-at tacks-get-simpler/
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Adware?
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