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Svengali_uk
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:46 am    Post subject: Photo-Block Spam Reply with quote

I can't help thinking that it is slightly more than co-incidence that a few days after joining this site, I get spam, promoting the use of "Photo-Block" to prevent speed cameras getting a picture of my numberplate.
Just for the record, I bought this product a couple of years ago after seeing a television report, and seeing re-prints of several magazine articles.
It MAY work - but only for a short while. In a few months, the numberplate crazes and goes brown. The highly reflective surface is lost, and the effect is lost.
I have six points to PROVE that it is a failure!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I did not get the spam so probably purely coincidental, But the good news is I now know hundreds of place I can buy Viagra from. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Well I did not get the spam so probably purely coincidental,
Same here, never a problem.

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But the good news is I now know hundreds of place I can buy Viagra from.
Never had that problem either, but if I did, bought some and they tasted funny, I'd just keep a stiff upper lip. :P
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lost_Property wrote:
Never had that problem either, but if I did, bought some and they tasted funny, I'd just keep a stiff upper lip. :P
The old ones are still the best.;)
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Photo-Block Spam Reply with quote

Svengali_uk wrote:
I can't help thinking that it is slightly more than co-incidence that a few days after joining this site, I get spam, promoting the use of "Photo-Block" to prevent speed cameras getting a picture of my numberplate.
Just for the record, I bought this product a couple of years ago after seeing a television report, and seeing re-prints of several magazine articles.
It MAY work - but only for a short while. In a few months, the numberplate crazes and goes brown. The highly reflective surface is lost, and the effect is lost.
I have six points to PROVE that it is a failure!

As you have your email address in your profile it is clearly visible to web crawlers in every post you make here (see the 'email' button). The only unusual thing is the targetted nature of the Spam.

We DO NOT sell or offer the user email database to any 3rd party and will never do so. It is used to verify user regsitrations or to send you the newsletter if you requested it.

And the photo block doesn't work full stop. It's a simple matter to read the plate having run the image through software. And you risk another fine for using it.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darren,

One of the page footer Google ads is currently advertising it Shocked

I can't get an image, but I hacked this from the Frame Source

Quote:
Photo Blocker Spray £19

Makes your Number Plate Invisisible To Speed Cameras Legal to sell & Use

http://www.bulbs4autos.co.uk/cameraspray.html
The misspelling is theirs!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

....And I can't believe it's "legal to use"!!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, have asked for them to be blocked.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now blocked
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At the risk of turning this thread into my personal GoogleAds winge thread (maybe we need one in the Off Topic Forum, if so, please feel free to split this off!):

Particularly annoying Ad showing just now! Clicking on it takes you here, which gives no clue to what the site is. I presume it is some sort of on-line casino!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Firefox 3 Adblock Plus 1.0.2.

What ads?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mullet wrote:
Firefox 3 Adblock Plus 1.0.2.

What ads?


They are now up to 3.0.9 and 1.0.5 if you hadn't noticed. Dunno why people suffer from ads either!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mullet wrote:
Firefox 3 Adblock Plus 1.0.2.
Cool On my "home" machine. IE on my work laptop! Sad
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dlpruk wrote:
They are now up to 3.0.9 and 1.0.5 if you hadn't noticed.

Updated to that FF yesterday. You are mistaken, versions here, 1.0.5 is the helper.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dlpruk wrote:
They are now up to 3.0.9 and 1.0.5 if you hadn't noticed. Dunno why people suffer from ads either!

Hmm, perhaps because ad income is what pays for some of this site? If everyone blocked the ads then we'd have to find other ways to pay some of the bills?

Ads are a fact of life, I can understand the annoyance of pop-up, pop-under ads but we try to balance annoyance with necessity. Their ain't no thing as a free lunch you know!
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