|
lol! Good one!
But I just wish that you guys realized that prechecks ain't shit. I've seen a lot of posts on GFY babbling about x-sells fucking the surfer. Well, they aren't anything CLOSE to what was done with dialers a few years ago. It seems like none of the people on GFY seem to have been around in the late 1990's and early 2000's to remember the MILLIONS of dollars made on dialers.
Ever hear about some of the "old school" "legends" who retired? That's how they did it.
The shit that is said to be "fucking the surfer" like pre-checks (which are used by mainstream as well) are NOT fucking anybody. But boy...you let one of those aggressive dialers get your ass 10 years ago and you ended up with a phone bill in the THOUSANDS of dollars in a few hours.
It was insane.
Yep, a prechecked x-sell that allows the surfer to un-check it and then if he doesn't... charges him a dollar, and then sends him an email with full details about how to cancel before the rebill happens...I can't even compare that to the old dialers that were in the html of almost every big traffic site back in the day.
Do any of you old timers remember Martin in Germany? He made us all a lot of money in Europe.
Those things downloaded and installed themselves, disconnected the surfer from their isp, then reconnected them to the dialer program and started charging several dollars a MINUTE to surf.
Now THAT was some serious fucking over of surfers. As I said MILLIONS were made for a lot of people.
And yet...somehow people still come to porn sites. I don't think x-sells are the "true ruin of the industry" at all. People weren't deterred by the dialers, they weren't deterred by the old popups that were endless and would run all the ram out of your machine and force you to hard boot...and they aren't going to be deterred by stupid x-sells.
Look at Naughty America. They are 100% clean with no x-sells. Never had 'em. They have great content and very good sites. Any of us that have been around for a few years have made great money with them.
But not now. The tubes and torrents are killing their sales dead because they basically have their entire members areas of all their sites ripped and on display for free.
That's your culprit. Not this little pansy ass shit that you noob's think is "fucking the surfer" You don't even have a clue how the surfers REALLY got fucked a few years ago.
|