Comments on: Spam awareness 101

By: vary

vary — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:50:20 +0000

I use both google toolbar and webdeveloper based firefox.

By: Chung

Chung — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:10:52 +0000

I’ll just stick with my google toolbar

By: adam nelson

adam nelson — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:47:38 +0000

Ha, Web Developer Extension by Chris Pederick blows prefbar out of the water. YT, Adam

By: Help Desk Software

Help Desk Software — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:18:03 +0000

Why not these features in the google bar?

By: HaHa

HaHa — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:20:38 +0000

Google at the moment isn’t sophisticated enough to pick up hidden text.why bother with redirects.
The latest craze is to get expired domains and place “sorry we are moving server” on the site and load the source with hidden links to the money sites..Its dominating adult serps at the moment.
Its getting back to pre florida when the spamming of google was an embarassement.

By: Another useful feature

Another useful feature — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:54:02 +0000

Thank you for the informational post.
You are doing a very good job by starting to maintain this blog.
Ironically enough, I yesterday installed the prefbar to protect myself against Google’s sneaky rwt function when using Firefox (You know what I’m talking about).

Just wanted to point out another useful function of Prefbar.

I don’t ever expect this to be published on your blog but wanted to bring your attention to the fact that the sneaky redirect really concerns some people.

After all, when all ethical websites are doing redirect openly (like Yahoo), why does Google feel the need to implement such a sneaky redirect by utilizing an onmousedown event?

Thanks

By: detlev

detlev — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:53:05 +0000

I like Opera better than FF or IE. You may miss some goodies, but loads of neat stuff is built-in.

So, Matt… “sneaky redirects” is language right from gg’s webmaster’s page. Keep up the fun! Have you seen the spammy pages that have a JS redirect with a mouseover event on the image sized to fit the whole browser window? Shut down JS and reload the page to see the thing. These pages are usually loaded with spam text and links below the image. Purely potted meat product, that is.

-detlev

By: Joe Hunkins

Joe Hunkins — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:54:33 +0000

Hi Matt –

RE: sneaky javascripting. Please also mention if there are NON sneaky alternatives that are acceptable. I think a lot of sites (ours for example) have things like java popunder from Casale and/or Fastclick and I’m wondering if these redirections could be identified as sneaky or problematic.

Any other advice on whether “popunders” are considered annoying enough to downrank pages would be helpful to many sites/users.

By: DaveN

DaveN — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:00:44 +0000

what you need is greasemonkey and build your tool set thats what I did..

DaveN

By: Your Fans

Your Fans — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:20:59 +0000

No I hate browsers which have javascript disabled. You shouldn’t promote this toolbar here, just trun the js off and ask your gmail guys to visit the gmail.com site.