LadyPact
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Sigh. All too many indeed.
I'm telling you, man. I almost wanted to throw a parade the day they implemented the spam feature. Good for longer term members. Unfortunately, around that same time, they put up that 'newest member' feature. I don't think that did women on either side of the slash any favors. I'm sure it's not a picnic for new males, either.
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I must agree because it's easy for the owners to tell if the ads are working, and, they have had those ads for a while, so, they must be working for them, even down to the part about those featured "profile" being right there, in YOURTOWN USA!
Which is why I feel like a fool because I'm the one who has to pipe up and say *some* of them are correct. I'm sure it makes me look stupid, gullible, or both, but certain areas of AK aren't exactly big, huge kink communities. It's kind of hard not to know the faces that showed up.
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Someone is paying for the ad, so, they have a vested interest in ensuring that it's working; so we can both agree, almost certainly there are a lot of fools clicking on those ads and signing up to alt.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc., as a result.
For the life of me, I can't imagine why. All of the complaints about Alt (without paid membership) are solved by Fet, save one. Open chat. Not person to person chat, like Fet has. Actual room chat. That might be the thing that's keeping Alt and AFF alive.
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I'm gonna guess that the reason the alt.com banner ads on Collarspace use geolocation of your IP address is that, perhaps, they're not legally allowed the location information we manually enter (e.g., zip code) onto this Collarspace site.
No joke. Until I started screwing with settings, I was sitting right here, eighteen months after I moved, still getting the AK feed. I wish I could tell you why but I'm too much of a tech idiot to know.
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You don't see me clicking that button.
I was hoping one of you (fools?) would have done that for me!
:)
Yeah. Remind me to smack you for that one. 
The featured photo button? I can see why this site would be plugging that, even if the photos weren't being transferred to other sites. There are so many factors that have contributed to numbers being down. The place is still turning a pretty penny but it's not what it was making just a few years ago. My research methods suhuhuckkkkk compared to the way Resident Sadist does it. His research on numbers is impressive.
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I really don't know what they do with it, while I do realize they can do a lot with it.
I don't think many do know and the few that do, probably aren't going to show up on the thread to tell all. If they did, whatever gimmick that is going loses steam and reduces the result they are trying to create.
Hey, if it was my business (as in business ownership) I'd try to sell the product. I've never went with the theory that the place shouldn't make money. CM wasn't exactly started as a charity.
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I suspect they do two things at least:
1. They use your photo in the "featured photos" button (which has zero value to you)
2. They use your photo in third party ads (which also has no value to you)
One exception. If I really thought the photos from the wax project would end up encouraging more education, like the original intention that I had, I'd probably do it. Here and on the other site (FL) I can't tell you how many emails I've received in the past three years about how to do this trick or that trick safely. I don't know. Greater good and all of that.
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Credit goes to DreamLady actually; I simply documented the steps.
I really should send her a note to thank her properly. I don't know if she's seen the posts.
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What you really want to know is how to protect yourself from a site, such as Collarspace, which is inherently insecure (i.e., there is no http(s)).
I know. You've recommended this before. So, if I should need it, I promise to take you up on the offer, someday. Be warned in advance that I am very stubborn, can be thick headed, and sometimes, rather dense. However, I can be taught.
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My methods are well known in the tech community; but most people don't know them, so, it's too much detail, for them, to figure out the ramifications; so they use adblock instead.
I know it worked for those who were being annoyed. (And, I must say, I didn't exactly think they were for all viewers.)
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The devil is always in the detail.
I'm going to give you a piece of (unsolicited) advice. If your next Dominant is anything like me, you'll be removing a couple of your personal catch phrases ("wardrobe malfunction" and "devil in the details") real f^cking quick. If you don't, she's probably going to beat your ass.
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As you can imagine, I pore over the news every day, reading everything that interests me, so, I have been exposed to obnoxious stuff, all of which I shut down if/when I can.
For example, I open multiple tabs from Google News, and some of them obnoxiously play video (which simply repeats what is in the text, which I can read faster in the text than they can banter about in the video).
There are MANY ways to avoid that automatic video (turn off flash, for one!) but with the recent advent of Firefox version 42, you can now FIND and DESTROY those ads, simply by looking for a "speaker" icon in the offending tab, and clicking on that icon.
Voila! No more obnoxious playing videos.
And, there are no details other than to install the latest version of Firefox.
<Insert row of expletives here that make me sound like a sailor.>
If I screw with that, how does it effect my WoW gaming? I still want that to make noise.
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Of course, there are *other* things you can do, but maybe we should have a thread on that. For one, you could download the MVP Hosts File, which is what I used as my starter hosts file on all my machines.
- http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Of course, I do more (much much more), for example, I wipe out my entire Firefox profile directory EVERY time I restart Firefox. Yup. Even though I "think" I have prevented "bad stuff" from being saved to my profile, you never really can be sure, so, my Firefox startup script loads a semi-hardened profile all the time.
A thread on that wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't see why it would be bad for Off Topic. You techie folks could compare methods and folks like me would learn something.
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If I "want" to make a change, I make it to the semi-hardened profile, and not to the current session. I don't expect everyone to do this, but, as I said, the devil is in the details.
Go ahead, Dude. One more time.
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The average person probably doesn't even realize how dangerous Collarspace is, not being encrypted, let alone these types of details.
Probably not but I don't see it as being as dangerous as sites that hold financial information. Unless somebody is going to get my physical (down to the street) address from the IP, shouldn't it be ok?
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The new mod seems like a fine guy (it's a guy, right?).
I'm yet undetermined.
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I've gotten a few messages from him, and he seems to be reasonable.
While I find New Mod to be reasonable most of the time, due to certain differences of opinion, I don't see us sitting down to a friendly dinner anytime soon. I would say we have different priorities and leave it at that.
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If you see an error message like the one I showed, it means a domain couldn't be reached. There are MANY reasons that could happen, so, it's perfectly reasonable that you would have seen such a message.
No offense meant but I don't see it as a loss. I don't know how it is when females are the featured shot(s) but most of the male ones don't really have much when it comes to the actual BDSM stuff. It's not that I don't like face shots. I do. Still, I'm more the type to enjoy BDSM art. Rope ties, needle designs, fire shots, etc. Call me strange.
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