filmtvdp
join:2004-02-09
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
| reply to damascene
Re: its a good idea
said by damascene  :
its a good idea. similar to googles thing. target ppl
Yes, it is a good idea, but ONLY as a profit making hijack scheme for VeriSign.
First, unless you are already "locked" onto a site, very few of us ever get a 404 error. Most times, the re-direct will go to a search engine the OS has tucked away in the registry by one of the vendors who have an interest in having you use their search tool.
The difference in the way that VeriSign was doing it, was they would hijack your Web stats, making your visitor logs virtually useless.
I tried several times to contact them about this "problem", but never received a reply to my emails or phone calls. I finally had my attorney contact them, and their response to him was that in the future, they would have a commercial "add-on" that I could subscribe to (not free), that would give me my accurate originating site visitor stats.
So why would I want to pay for something I get for free now? Even when a person Googles my Web sites, I get the pass through stats, with VeriSign, all I saw was the VeriSign hijack. This is why a lot of ISPs and Web hosts were complaining.
They have much more of an agenda than just collecting ad revenue off of the redirect page.
Absolute power corrupts and absolute power always corrupts absolutely.
My two 'pence. |
