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| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| Between the Victims and the cyberWar |
Economics Focus
This graph illustrates the dramatic transfer of wealth from Google to you as you participate in their affiliate program (yes, this is a joke).
Seriously though, how much money can we ever hope to make from participating in the Google AdSense thingie? These people at Explorer Destroyer don't mince their words. I dont want to be accused of plagiarism like M Vs Oyunga Pala so hereby i give all the photo and idea credit to The Explorer Destroyer.
That said, i still have a bone to pick with these "freebies" on the internet. In my place of work, i have to deal with countless incidences of Users' machines Locking Up. Its not like i dont have the latest Anti-virus, Anti-spyware or Firewall, i do. Its just that my Users are always downloading every free thing they can find on the internet. There are some extreme cases (Some of them my bosses) where they cannot bear to see the NET down, since they were chatting some babe up.
What happened to the real Free(as in beer) Internet? Where you had to look to find Totally Free software and tools? Days when true hacker websites existed and did not try to sell you their warez? These days you cannot venture into any site without attracting tracking cookies, trojan downloaders, and some other funnyfunny bugz. Shame on you who still use Internet Explorer!, because you should have figured out that you are the most vulnerable.
We have a steadily emerging group of Net-Addicts all over, and its not only the young generation (If you are reading this you know yourself), who cannot stay even one hour bila net.
So we end up collecting unnecessary information (Guess, Milo, Km, Ms K: toeni akili zenu kwenye gutter) and all of a sudden, we are calling the HelpDesk for support in getting rid of those annoying pop-ups that try to sell us more Viagra, Bigger unmentionables (Courtesy: Milo)and non-existent Holiday trips, all the while they secretly attack our machines, steal ouur information and eventually crash our servers. (Shindwe!)
Another good thing about being Kenyan is having P.O.Boxes and actual money (that you still owe to Mama Wa Mboga). Its only of late that we see the push towards Credit Cards and actual Physical Addresses (what happened to the project by the City Council? OOps i forgot... they actually make an effort of doing nothing!), i digress. Many kenyans undoubtedly would have fallen for the con-Artists' (For their ingenuity, yes, For inspiring mankind, NO.) *spits in disgust* tricks and lures. There are stories, but who's telling? Except you who read and write them, who really knows what a blog is? Yes, AJAX is also a technology, you dumb fool!(That's to my boss.)
Honestly its only an imbecile who would fall for the Next Of Kin fiasco that so rudely assaults my mail, and every other Netizen's. The Law clearly stipulates that bank transfers above a certain amount coming into your account will be tracked! Then you with your ambitions, give away ati your bank details. You need to be confined to Murungaru's Armpits for a Month!
Enough of my rantings. Maybe next time (when and if Blogger allows) i will post some pics hating on Internet Explorer.
For now:
In Firefox I remain, since for some reason or another my Opera conked out last week! |
posted by Sammie @ 5:00 PM  |
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I dumped them. If they couldn't find but a hundred bucks worth of revenue in 300,000 hits, then I needed my screenrealestate back. (I still allow them one tiny squib, but I really should kill that, too.)
Also, I was not willing to put in the time to kill off inappropriate ads. ("New Orleans Forclosures!" adverstised after Hurrucane Katrina, for example.)
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I need to hear whether they actually pay you anything at all that would make your fortunes change.
lol why would you want to punish one so hard into those armpits?
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Ooiyee nothing after sijui how many hits i only have 5 dollars. Imagine, and they can only send a 100 dollars check.
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I've always preferred Opera to IE - got hooked to multi-tab browsing and speed
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Yeah, FF instead of MSIE...
Google Ads sense that bad? Never tried they out - guess I'm to sceptic to believe the hype. I think putting a link to working Ministry websites would generate more clicks than amusing Google Ads :)
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@girlie:Karibu sana.
@kathryn: Some of these is what we refer to as Cash Cows in Kenya. These sites pay mad cash to Google for their ads and then google gives you crumbs for the ads to appear on your site.
@Prou: They actually do, only after some "considerable Hits", (check above)
For the armpit thingie, its just to stop him/her screaming the bank down when s/he realises his/her life's saving has been siphoned off!
@Shi: Usijali, Afterall you are hosting their ads!
@Mama mia: At last, an Opera Fan! Am totally with you on the Tabbed browsing
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@JKE: Most of the ministry sites look like they were cobbled up by force.
A good idea if only these sites had up to date content.
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I dumped them. If they couldn't find but a hundred bucks worth of revenue in 300,000 hits, then I needed my screenrealestate back. (I still allow them one tiny squib, but I really should kill that, too.)
Also, I was not willing to put in the time to kill off inappropriate ads. ("New Orleans Forclosures!" adverstised after Hurrucane Katrina, for example.)