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I think you couldn't make much money out of this anyway. 5k daily visitors sounds decent, but they are of low "quality": They quickly leave and would generate b

I think you couldn't make much money out of this anyway. 5k daily visitors sounds decent, but they are of low "quality": They quickly leave and would generate bad click-through rates. It would probably yield less than $100 a month.

edpichler 10y ago
It would make less than 40 USD month, I guess. I am comparing to a page with similar quantity of unique visitors I have.
chrismorgan 10y ago
How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?
- mfukar 10y ago
  How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?
  - gravypod 10y ago
    There's nothing wrong with receiving emails. I don't think it's actually illegal to do that. Just a bit morally off.
    - detaro 10y ago
      Just receiving e-mails would hardly be a way to "monetize it by phishing".
      - Cpoll 10y ago
        You could probably just redirect all emails to @gmail.com, and most users would be none the wiser. Then you'd be able to trivially do password resets on any accounts that were created with the typo domain.
        gravypod 10y ago
        Or just sell the emails to unsavory people. They were sent to you, you have a right to sell them (so long as you're in a one-party-consent state when it comes to recording). You're up to snuff law-wise. Definetly a shady thing to do.
    - mfukar 10y ago
      What does phishing have to do with receiving emails?
  - fnordfnordfnord 10y ago
    The DOJ only prosecutes a few hundred of these cases per year. You'd need to do a lot of phishing, or something special in order to get their attention, I suspect.
fnordfnordfnord 10y ago
The entire page is 2501 bytes consisting of 246 words. How do you figure that slow readers are higher quality visitors than the others?
- mynameisvlad 10y ago
  That's not what the parent comment said at all. They're lower quality visitors because they don't have a genuine interest in "gail.com", they most likely wanted to go to "gmail.com" and mistyped (hence the name of the post). Once they see it's not actually Gmail, most will bounce pretty quickly.

edpichler 10y ago

It would make less than 40 USD month, I guess. I am comparing to a page with similar quantity of unique visitors I have.

chrismorgan 10y ago

How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?

mfukar 10y ago
How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?
- gravypod 10y ago
  There's nothing wrong with receiving emails. I don't think it's actually illegal to do that. Just a bit morally off.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Just receiving e-mails would hardly be a way to "monetize it by phishing".
    - Cpoll 10y ago
      You could probably just redirect all emails to @gmail.com, and most users would be none the wiser. Then you'd be able to trivially do password resets on any accounts that were created with the typo domain.
      - gravypod 10y ago
        Or just sell the emails to unsavory people. They were sent to you, you have a right to sell them (so long as you're in a one-party-consent state when it comes to recording). You're up to snuff law-wise. Definetly a shady thing to do.
  - mfukar 10y ago
    What does phishing have to do with receiving emails?
- fnordfnordfnord 10y ago
  The DOJ only prosecutes a few hundred of these cases per year. You'd need to do a lot of phishing, or something special in order to get their attention, I suspect.

fnordfnordfnord 10y ago

The entire page is 2501 bytes consisting of 246 words. How do you figure that slow readers are higher quality visitors than the others?

mynameisvlad 10y ago
That's not what the parent comment said at all. They're lower quality visitors because they don't have a genuine interest in "gail.com", they most likely wanted to go to "gmail.com" and mistyped (hence the name of the post). Once they see it's not actually Gmail, most will bounce pretty quickly.