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Imho the difference is that spam emails are a captive audience; keep sending them, eventually you get a hit. And you can send new ones to the same person repeat
by petee 9y ago
Imho the difference is that spam emails are a captive audience; keep sending them, eventually you get a hit. And you can send new ones to the same person repeatedly.
But irritating popups will ensure many will never come back - you've forever lost your opportunity to even attempt to sell me something. Seems so illogical
- oblio 9y agoYou're assuming that regular people care that much about them. When you have users with an Internet Explorer not that far from this one: https://i.stack.imgur.com/82hWm.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/82hWm.jpg, do you really think that several popups phase the regular users? :)
- iratewizard 9y agoInternet explorer with a million toolbars seems to have been replaced with the much cleaner tablet-as-a-Facebook-machine and a million freemium apps.
- vorpalhex 9y ago"Steve needs your help in farmville!"
- jopsen 9y agoTrue, but mostly I end up those sites because google sends me there. When browsers and search engines fights back against crappy web content I suspect we'll see change.