Is the redirect screen deceitful?

[JohnT]

I mean, think about it. Everytime you click on a link that takes you out of Poly, two things happen:

1. You go to a "redirect" screen, which does absolutely nothing but pad Poly hit (click?) counts by adding people who are leaving the site.

2. You always get an ad, no exception. I assume somebody is getting paid for this ad... do the advertisers know that their ads are being consistently shown to people leaving the site?*

And did you know if you leave the popups open, they don't multiply. If you close them, though, you'll get a new one once you make another Poly click. I've been testing this theory with the "One2One" and the "You're computer may not be running our crap utilities" ads.

*I'm pretty sure if they did, they wouldn't care. But it's still a bit... shady.

[Solver]

That's what Apolyton does to survive . A pop-up popping up gets the site revenue.

[MarkG]

You always get an ad, no exception

there are no ads in the redirection pages

[Dauphin]

Ads come up in another new window whenever you click a link to an outside website.

Are you just being pedantic Mark?

[MarkG]

Ads come up in another new window whenever you click a link to an outside website.

oh THOSE redirect pages....

i thought he was referring to the forum redirect pages(shown after posting, etc)

I assume somebody is getting paid for this ad...

yes. apolyton.

I'm pretty sure if they did, they wouldn't care

they dont (care)

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by MarkG
oh THOSE redirect pages....

'Tis pretty sneaky........but if the advertisers don't care there is no problem, unless you have a problem with pop-ups generally.

[alva]

I assume somebody is getting paid for this ad...

yes. apolyton.

I'm pretty sure if they did, they wouldn't care

they dont (care)

Then you have our blessing...

[H Tower]

it seems that no one thinks the form of advertising is deceitful.

Me? I don't give a damn about the advertisers and gladly would screw them over if i had a chance

[vovan]

Originally posted by H Tower
Me? I don't give a damn about the advertisers and gladly would screw them over if i had a chance

If you don't depend of their $$$ that is.

[JohnT]

I don't think the form of advertising is deceitful, I just think that the use of redirect pages is, well, not 110% honest.

Thanks for the answers Mark. Now I have another question:

When I started posting this thread, I could've sworn that I saw another thread in this forum that looked really interesting, something entitled "How Long Will Apolyton Last". When I was done, it was gone.

Am I seeing things? Or did the thread happen to get deleted sometime around 3:50pm, EST (US)?

[vovan]

Originally posted by JohnT
When I started posting this thread, I could've sworn that I saw another thread in this forum that looked really interesting, something entitled "How Long Will Apolyton Last". When I was done, it was gone.

Am I seeing things? Or did the thread happen to get deleted sometime around 3:50pm, EST (US)?

Seeing things The thread is still there:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73135

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by MarkG

Ads come up in another new window whenever you click a link to an outside website.

oh THOSE redirect pages....

i thought he was referring to the forum redirect pages(shown after posting, etc)

I thought JohnT's "Everytime you click on a link that takes you out of Poly" would have been a giveaway.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by vovansim


Seeing things The thread is still there:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=73135

more like NOT seeing things

[Dinner]

Yes it is a little underhanded but it keeps 'poly going so I don't care. The pop-ups also don't bother me since I use a pop-up blocker.

[Dauphin]

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink. Say no more!.

Originally posted by Oerdin
Yes it is a little underhanded but it keeps 'poly going so I don't care. The pop-ups also don't bother me since I use a pop-up blocker.

You mean the pop-ups don't annoy you else you would use a pop-up blocker. Seeing as how you support Poly wholeheartedly and all you wouldn't attempt to deny it much needed revenues.