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You Have Got To See This - Evil Phone Companies
Aug 23rd, 2007 at 4:34pm
 
What happened to the link to a video I placed in this section?
It was merely an amusing video, about the tactics used by telcos in customer retention. I thought that, considering our feelings regarding some Telcos, it was quite relevant.
If it was in the wrong section, then obviously a move to the correct section would have been appropriate.
However, it, and any comments by fellow members, has been deleted.
What was so offensive about it that it could only stay live for 3 hours?
Surely courtesy should have prevailed, and a message should have been sent to me to at least allow modification or personal removal.

I appreciate that, for want of a better phrase, the Mods are Gods on this site, and as such try to act in the communal interest, but was it really that bad?


~Edited by bbb_uk: Amended title
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Re: Gone on, Tell me who I upset this time!
Reply #1 - Aug 23rd, 2007 at 4:53pm
 
DaveM has hidden it because it appears to cause nasty pop ups to appear.
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Reply #2 - Aug 23rd, 2007 at 5:00pm
 
Surely a courtesy message would have been more appropriate, then I could have deleted that link and searched for another.
It didn't give me any problems,but then I have so many different security and adware products that I doubt if it would have got through anyway.
So bearing in mind we are, mostly, adults here.
Where is the link to it's hidden location so that it may be viewed by others, now they are aware of the risk?

Meantime I'll try to find a better copy, because I thought it was quite amusing and relevant.


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You could try
http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Phone_companies_are_evil-ecli.html
or
http://www.dumpalink.com/movieplayer.swf?autoStart=1&video=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dump...

or this is where it really came from
http://www.vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/2634
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Re: Gone on, Tell me who I upset this time!
Reply #3 - Aug 23rd, 2007 at 5:28pm
 
Nasty pop ups?
Hmm, I hope that my Norton et al were on top of that, because closing down a "windows update" appeared to make all well.
And I think that my slamming comment was valid.
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Reply #4 - Aug 23rd, 2007 at 7:41pm
 
Having looked at the other link (from original thread), I also found (once I closed down my firewall), that it displayed and opened another window that tried to make you think you had PC errors and to download software to fix these PC errors.

Unfortunately, we can't assume that everyone has security options in place (DaveM obviously doesn't - lol) and this was why it was removed.

I personally can't find a problem with pop-ups, adware/spyware with the new links found.
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