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AOL Buys Advertising.com For No Clear Reason
from the there-goes-that-idea dept
AOL announced today that they're buying Advertising.com. What's not entirely clear, however, is why. They claim it's to "provide advertisers with an opportunity to reach more than 140 million Internet users." Of course, advertisers already had that opportunity. Advertising.com works with advertisers to connect them to 1,500 publishers -- but now, in being owned by AOL, they'll be competing with those publishers. If that's the case, Advertising.com is likely to lose a lot of business from publishers, and will really only be useful for advertising on AOL properties. Of course, there were already ways to advertise on AOL, so it's not entirely clear how useful this will be. Still, it has to be slightly better than relying on scamming employees to sell AOL email addresses to spammers as a way of advertising to AOL customers.
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Aohell sucks
Aohell doesn't pay their employees a living wage so its no surpirse an unethical employee sold the list. ( I'm not saying it was right )
Aohell is notorious THEMSELVES for selling or "renting" their subscribers information to 3rd parties. Buying Advertising.com is proof in point.
Aohell blathers on about how they protect your privacy and its an outright lie.
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Re: Aohell sucks
Ah, an "AOL sucks" posting... um, BORING... sorry, but you're behind the times- this kinda thing used to be cool, but now it's just lame.
You make three claims in your posting, and all of them are completely without basis. Unless, of course, you happen to have evidence?
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Re: Aohell sucks
Yes, I do have proof as I have set up Aohell addresses in the past specifically to prove that Aohell sold the screen name since I NEVER used it for anything.
A post about me posting about Aohell ... even more boring than your post.
Cheers
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