A side reference, not necessarily something to do with advertising that like, but if you like good house, clubbing and dance music, check out Univers DJ. It’s a french website, but don’t worry, there is an „English“ button, as well. You need to sign in, if you want to download (where was that bugmenot again?), but it’s well worth it. You get 1-2h long DJ-sessions from DJs all over Paris and France. Great Music!
Ok, after having read a little more into the story of bugmenot.com, I can see that even though this was announced as something rather new on the lifehacker blog, it has been, in fact, discussed for about a year now at the Poynter.
well just tried it on one of the major news papers and it didn’t work. Don’t know if this is, because they blocked it or if the service is not running properly. But I will try somewhere else sometime.
And furthermore, it didn’t work at the sites that lifehacker specifically mentioned. What use is that article of lifehacker then, if they didn’t try it?
Something I just found at Lifehacker, (whilst learning what the site is really about): BugMeNot.com. Good for bypassing compulsory web registration. Why do that? Here is an explanation by the folks themselves:
„It’s a breach of privacy.
Sites don’t have a great track record with the whole spam thing.
It’s contrary to the fundamental spirit of the net. Just ask Google.
It’s pointless due to the significant percentage of users who enter fake demographic details anyway.
It’s a waste of time.
It’s annoying as hell.
Imagine if every site required registration to access content.“
About ethics – that is being discussed
here. Good news for the site owners: if they really wanted to, they can be put on a „blocked“ list – which sounds as if bugmenot will not work on this site then. I couldn’t try it, of course, but why would I want to?
As a marketer, I should be happy if my clients collect data about their users, as this enables me to target them better with my advertising. But as a user, I don’t want that. It’s a funny catch 22 I am in. Before 7pm, I want the data, after 7pm, I don’t want to give it. And now I am trying this on a site, which didn’t let me in sofar without registering…
I have to correct one of my posts from below. Lifehacker is actually part of the gawker sites. No wonder they are sponsored with large ads, etc.
I never came across these yet and didn’t know what gawker is. Might call me ignorant, bud as I also surf a lot on german websites, I guess quite a few .com addresses sofar slipped my attention. But that is now changing, as I started this blog (and continously snoop around all the other blogs that are somewhat related to my interest…
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