General Music Chat

A new banner ad here on Bandmix. Has anybody clicked on the "View" button to see these pirvate pics or videos? Just wondering who it was that sent ME the pic, and how do they know who I am? Weirdest banner ad I've ever seen...

Bob dont click it, Ive been getting the same banner, you must have been looking at the same porn Ive been looking at! LOL!

Never click on ANY banner ads!

Never click on ANY banner ads!

I have them all over my website Levitynews.com. As far as I can tell they are all legit companies. I've clicked on all of them and the websites are fine. They are also approved by Shareasale, which is the company that gets affiliates (me) and merchants together. Also, my website is monitored by Sitelock, which tests peridoically for viruses, none found so far. I would assume Sitelock checks the banner ads also. In fact right now, at the top of the page I'm now typing on is an ad for Nature Box, which is also one of my merchants. So NOT clicking on ANY banner ads is WRONG. Many of them are safe, the vast majority are good companies. It is likely that Bandmix is using a similar company to Shareasale, so I would bet the banners are good.

If you surf unknown waters you'd better wear a good wet suit.

I would still reiterate - don't click on banner ads! Bob - do you see any income form the ads on your site? I assume payment only comes upon completion of a large amount of clicks on the ads.

Those are all over the place, and nothing but gimmicks, hoping to find someone gullible enough to believe it and click in. Then they go even further and assure you a "free" profile. And yeah, it's free to sign up. But that's all. You can't answer someone's PM, you can't send one, you can only view the one picture on their "avatar", so you essentially have a free profile that's absolutely useless. Unless you pay for a "Premier" account or whatever they call it.

Your surfing habits probably had nothing to do with it, they pay the website to allow them to place that banner ad there, hoping to get people to click in. I've seen them on fresh computers 1st time online, no way my browser could have had any porn cookies. (I've been a computer tech for 15 years and always have to try everything and make sure it works, especially with a fresh Windows install, including internet)

Very deceptive, bordering on dishonest, same as TV commercials for "free" profiles on dating sites and "free" scans by computer security software. Sure the scan is free, if you want the software to actually do anything, you have to pay for it.

I'm also moderator on a computer tech support forum, one of our members decided to try one of those free scans. I don't know which one, mycleanpc, pcmatic or whatever, he didn't specify. But that's exactly what he found out. The download and scan were free, once it fond some ungodly number of problems they wanted money to fix it.

Ditto for the dating sites, it's free to sign up. Nothing else is free. And they also now have your email address...bad news...that's where all those spam emails are suddenly coming from.

NOTHING is free...especially on the internet...

Likely the 'problems' ( happy Mike ) were not found but included in the scam program.
No . . . that is not a typo.

I didn't click on it. I'm not that stupid. Odd to see it here.

George - I've seen that happen plenty times too but I doubt it with the ones advertised on TV, they have way too much to lose in a lawsuit. Several of the more shady ones advertised online have done that over the years, and been caught but I'm not sure if any have been prosecuted. We've seen it happen plenty times on the computer forums. I've seen them come up saying known Windows system files are viruses...on a machine I know is clean...