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~ sigh ~; F*d by ezboard again...
Topic Started: October 7, 2008, 7:10 am (57 Views)
Blue Phoenix
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Okay. We all know that Gold (payment to prevent huge, obtrusive advertisements for bras and dog food and such) was running out for our original Blue's Club. i kind of ignored the situation, knowing i wasn't going to give them any money when we'd pretty well been abandoned. I figured they'd take out all the javascript and html again, too, since that's how they maneuvered people into paying them over the years.


So i stop in this morning to see how bad it looks, and see a link to the following:

FREE GOLD
 
Free Gold!
Need to renew your Gold for Blue's Club but don't have the money?
Get FREE Gold for your ezboard community by simply letting your Gold Community subscription expire and the Free Gold service will automatically be turned on and you will retain all of your Gold features, Javascript customizations, and invisible forums!
uh... what? LET Gold expire and free gold will be turned on? Makes no sense. There has to be a catch...




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In exchange for FREE Gold Community, unobtrusive and carefully selected ads that are not seen by your ezSupporters will be placed on your board.

WAIT! The whole REASON that i paid for an ad-free Gold board was so that my posters could visit in peace and enjoy the board without being hounded to pay for individual ezSupporter (still sounds like a jock strap to me, lol) or annoyed by the disruption of HUGE irrelevant ads!




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Free Gold Community posts display unobtrusive and carefully selected ads that mimic your board's color scheme, and will only be shown on topic (post & reply) pages. The ads are based on what your members are talking about - so they are relevant, and unobtrusive.

'Carefully selected'?
'mimic your board's color scheme'?
'based on what your members are talking about'?

...On post and reply pages BOTH?

That means the spyware system that Yuku (and Zetaboards) is using to gleen keywords has been incorporated at ezboard. Now, that's not so bad, but (1) that means they ARE working on ezboards, or at least were, recently; and (2) you either pay or they hold not just your board but individual posts hostage.

...BUT (and that's a BIG 'but') where Zetaboards is actually polite about it, simply putting a narrow banner ad the length of the window on every thread you read, Yuku and ezboard put a large, square, chunky, UNAVOIDABLE, VERY INTRUSIVE, (unobtrusive, my A$$!) advertisement RIGHT IN YOUR POST WINDOW!!!


If you've ever visited a Yuku board that hasn't paid for no-ads, you know just how disruptive these ads are. Your eye automatically goes to the ad because it's IN the posting window, and you want to see what the poster put there as part of his communication! (That's the "mimic your board's color scheme" part. How nice *coff* of them!)



The lack of respect just appalls me. And now they're using these ads on ezboard's system too, so they're on BC. I wish they would leave her in peace.

F*k. Just plain F*k.



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sounds to me they are worried boards wich had or get lots of traffic are going to leave and they are desperate to keep them on, I wouldnt do that sounds too much like phising to me
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