AdultFriendFinder rapped for X-rated pop-ups AdultFriendFinder.com, "The World's Largest Sex & Swingers Personal Community", has agreed to stop flashing X-rated pop-ups to unwitting surfers after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought charges that the practice violated federal law. According to an FTC statement, the website and its affiliates use such pop-ups to …
"...unless the consumers are actively seeking out sexually explicit content..."
It's "The World's Largest Sex & Swingers Personal Community." What were kids doing there in the first place? How can people who start looking in a site with that tagline expect to be "protected" from porn? What are these judges *on*?
Er please read the story....
It's "The World's Largest Sex & Swingers Personal Community." What were kids doing there in the first place? How can people who start looking in a site with that tagline expect to be "protected" from porn? What are these judges *on*?
Because of the following in the story
"displayed to consumers who were searching online using terms such as 'flowers', 'travel', and 'vacations'," thereby "exposing consumers, including children, to sexually explicit images"
So you get the pop ups no matter what you search for,.. Thats why.
I choose paris h, because she can not read either.
> It's "The World's Largest Sex & Swingers Personal Community." What were kids doing there in the first place? How can people who start looking in a site with that tagline expect to be "protected" from porn? What are these judges *on*?
erm, i think they are ads for the site, rather than ads on the site.
firstly - Annon for the first comment, you deserve the flack you get you prat.
secondly - its about time adult friend finder was brought to book. It is without doubt the most advertised site i have seen and some of its less decent ads have appeared on sites i would not have expected to see such things (not that I'm complaining of course.... but you know what i mean.*)
*Public access to anyone online including kids.
The pop ups are annoying, but what is really funny is the sample personals at the bottom of your screen that are supposedly available persons from your area. They use your IP address to determine where you are. But I have notice the same photos of people available in Tokyo as well as in New York. What are they trying to pull?
Forget that - my IP puts me in the middle of tinyville, nowhere, in New York. The nearest recorded town name is "Burdett" which has about 100 residents - and every time one of those stupid ads shows up it shows 12 hawt 20-somethings, all in Burdett, all salivating to get in my pants.
Heh.
In other news - sheesh; flowers, travel, and vacations? Of COURSE you get swinger porn! You need to bring flowers to the chick you're meeting, right? And of course you're TRAAAAVELING to meet her. And what is the event itself if not a vacation? They're totally within their rights. :)
That site is the worlds biggest scam, read up about it. You sign up and start getting like 20 mails a day from women who want to do anything from suck you at the movies to just calling round and having wild passionate sex sessions. The minute you pay them some dollars to reply to these lovely ladies the emails stop and no replies come back. They also own about 50% of the other dating sites on the net, all the "spam bot" profiles are definitely in-house too by the look of things, can they not do them for false advertising too?
"The World's Largest Sex & Swingers Bot Community"
What really annoys me is that when you search for anything Adult and interesting, you get thousands and thousands of entries all leading back to AFF or one of it's associated sites - in effect drowning out the competition.
Pop-ups - have not found them to be a problem as there are several free "blockers" available.
On the regulation side, it would be useful if search engines had a facility to split searches into Adult content/none Adult content - perhaps password protected.
AdultFriendFinder advertising pays for many of the pirate and free p0rn sites on the web. Their very successful business model seems to be based on convincing enough new guys to sign up for their site every day to cover their expenses. I've seen reports that they bring in more than a million dollars per employee.
quote: "On the regulation side, it would be useful if search engines had a facility to split searches into Adult content/none Adult content - perhaps password protected."
I think most of them probably do have such a thing. I know that with Google, if you go to the 'preferences' link, one of the settings there has to do with content filtering... by default it's set only to filter _images_ containing adult content from the search returns, but you can set it to filter text as well, or to filter nothing.
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