by dj_paige
RailPictures.net greeted me with a nasty pop-up window today. You can see the window here, it warns you that you many have critical errors on your computer, and that you should click to have your computer scanned.
DO NOT CLICK “Next” ON THIS POPUP WINDOW. Note the link location at the bottom of the window. It points to Casalemedia.com, an advertising company. They want your information. If you give them permission to scan your computer, you may also be giving away your privacy (and although I didn’t get this far, it may also try to install spy-ware). The Casalemedia website doesn’t mention anything about software to correct “critical errors”, but does boast of their huge database of information. This pop-up window is disgusting in its dishonesty.
I have written an e-mail to the owner of RailPictures.net, asking him why the pop-up is there, and telling him that if it is not removed, I shall consider him to be intentionally disregarding his users’s privacy, and I will no longer use his website. I shall let you know his reply, if any.
DO NOT CLICK “Next” ON THIS POPUP WINDOW. Note the link location at the bottom of the window. It points to Casalemedia.com, an advertising company. They want your information. If you give them permission to scan your computer, you may also be giving away your privacy (and although I didn’t get this far, it may also try to install spy-ware). The Casalemedia website doesn’t mention anything about software to correct “critical errors”, but does boast of their huge database of information. This pop-up window is disgusting in its dishonesty.
I have written an e-mail to the owner of RailPictures.net, asking him why the pop-up is there, and telling him that if it is not removed, I shall consider him to be intentionally disregarding his users’s privacy, and I will no longer use his website. I shall let you know his reply, if any.
Paige
"If you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance" -- Lee Ann Womack
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"If you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance" -- Lee Ann Womack
My Flickr Photos