Daily Deal: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Pro Security 2-Year Subscription
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept
With everything we do online, it’s important to take steps to protect yourself as best as you can. The Deals store is offering 45% off of a 2-year subscription for 2 PCs for Lavasoft Ad-Aware Pro Security. Lavasoft has added a complete antivirus suite to their anti-spyware and anti-adware capabilities. You’ll get protection from viruses, rootkits, Trojans, bot networks, spyware, keyloggers and many other online security threats.
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Comments on “Daily Deal: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Pro Security 2-Year Subscription”
spam
You are destroying your credibility and our belief in your honest reporting of news articles by presenting spam as legitimate news. Want you are telling us is that you are for sale and will write anything in a news article if you make enough money.
Re: spam
Exactly. They are selling out and doing it fast.. This is not advertising is content that Mike is such a fan of. This is selling out to a third party
Re: Re: spam
Exactly. They are selling out and doing it fast.. This is not advertising is content that Mike is such a fan of. This is selling out to a third party
Actually, this is exactly advertising is content — and seeing how many people actually click on and buy stuff every day, many of our readers appear to appreciate the deals. We are presenting potential deals for users, and many of them appreciate it. That’s a win-win. People are getting something they want to buy and we make some money in the process.
It seems a lot better than invasive pop ups or selling your information or anything like that.
This is very much a great example of advertising as content. And, from the numbers, a very large number of our readers find it content they not only appreciate, but wish to spend money on.
Re: spam
You are destroying your credibility and our belief in your honest reporting of news articles by presenting spam as legitimate news. Want you are telling us is that you are for sale and will write anything in a news article if you make enough money.
These posts are clearly not presented as news articles — but as part of our daily deal feature. They are clearly marked as deals posts, and from the response to them, plenty of people seem to appreciate the deals and take part in them.
We are not misrepresenting anything. We are not presenting “news” that we are being paid for. I do not understand your complaint other than you don’t like these deal posts. It is not that difficult to ignore them if that’s the case.
And, yes, these deals do help us stay in business. We do them instead of invasive things like selling data, pop ups, or other nefarious things. Would you prefer we make no money at all and not be able to publish anything?
Re: spam
Are you completely blind?
It says right there:
DAILY DEAL and at the end of the title (Deals)
HOW on earth would you ever consider this a story?
It’s tiny. I could scroll right past it.
EVEN THE PERSON POSTING IS USING THE NAME DAILY DEAL…WITH A TAG THAT SPECIFICALLY SAYS good-deals-on-cool-stuff.
HOW on earth would you ever consider this a story?
Not to mention…
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There is no way one could even believe that this is a story.
This is actually one of the few sites nowadays that will even load all the way for me at work. Even CNN’s site is so full of ad garbage in the background that our content filter won’t even let it load.
I would much prefer this kind of advertising across the board. Not nearly as intrusive as most of the advertising out there.
Re: spam
Yes, clearly marked advertising that doesn’t track you and can be easily ignored is pure evil and destroys credibility.
it’s selling out if visible, it’s selling out if it’s not visible, and it’s selling out if you quit writing for a site that makes no money to go actually make money to get buy on
Feb of this year...
Feb of this year… Just a few months ago.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/security-software-found-using-superfish-style-code-as-attacks-get-simpler/
Adware?
Humor me here folks, but… is this not the same company that bought by a Spam outfit a few years ago?