David
No,there is another.
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|  Well that is nice
A router that SPAMS you... What will they think of next...
Hint: sarcasm is implied and expected |
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Sisqo
World Champs. Babe Who?
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Methuen, MA | A computer that won't work till you buy something from some meaningless company somewhere in Florida or any other state  |
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Drex
Beer..It's What's For Dinner
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La Place, LA | reply to David
Spam that Spams you? |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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| reply to David
said by David  :
A router that SPAMS you...
Must have been made in Soviet Russia
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technick
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Loganville, GA
| screw belkin
This is why I never buy belkin.. period.. grrr.. if I still worked as a onsite tech I would have all my customers burning their belkin routers and wireless devices.. you people make me sick.
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bokamba
Chengdu Rocks
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Falls Church, VA | My Belkin surge protector spams me. |
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CyberSchnook3
Kiwi's Schnook
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Blue Nowhere | reply to technick
Damn.
Belkin used to be a good brand. Screw 'em now--I won't buy so much as a wire nut.
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cglaser
join:2002-04-21
Milwaukee, WI
| Belkin router - Idiotic
There is absolutely no justification for this. It is not a 'feature', it has no usefull purpose whatsoever.
Unbelievable. I for one will never buy a Belkin product again unless they stop this practice.
Security and privacy concerns abound as well. How do they update where you get redirected? Are you redirected to a hardcoded website address and the website then redirects you to the latest rotatio of ads? Or do they pump new code into the router for it? The first is more secure obviously than the second, but it's still a concern.
What if your kid is surfing and he gets redirected to an ad you don't want your children to see?
Way to go Belkin! |
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ross
join:2000-08-16 | This product is DOOMED!!! Where do they get these brainless twits? |
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exocet_cm
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Re: Well that is nice
Windows that spams you
Maybe for those REALLY slow people,
You that spams you
"I was like working on e-mail and then I sent, a couple of seconds later, I got an e-mail, it was spam, AND IT WAS FROM ME!"
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Logan 5
Wondering what happens next..
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|  reply to David
said by David :
A router that SPAMS you... What will they think of next...
SPAM that routes itself to your dinner plate maybe??
This is a VERY bad idea, and the *light bulb* at Belkin that came up with this idea should be back hand slapped until he cries like the little b*tch he is for ever thinking this up.
Is Belkin so hard up for $$$ that they had to sellout to the marketing aholes who dream up new and more inventive ways to tell me that I CAN lose weight or increase my Penis size by up to 3 full inches in 2 weeks...guaranteed?
They should just stick to what they do best: Cables and KVM switches...Oh yea. They will probably have KVM's that SPAM you with Ad displays when you switch computers coming out by the holiday shopping season....
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clowny
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Crystal Lake, IL | reply to technick
Re: screw belkin
I've never really heard anything great about Belkin & after reading this article, I'll never buy anything from those scumbags. |
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ViviTheMage
vivi
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pathetic. |
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AthlGrond
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Aurora, CO | You Do Have To Wonder
What were they thinking?
No one would care? That the people who did care wern't going to say anything?
Just another example of how marketing can cause more harm than good for a company. |
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palmer_j_r
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| reply to David
Re: Well that is nice
Messages (similiar to) that play Yaaaaahooooooo oooo oooo when you flush the toilet. **or** Cars that somehow knowingly direct you to "preferred" petro stations, and if you choose to opt out of this "convenient service", random engine problems with a little warning light that flashes, prefered petro not used, do you wish to opt back in?
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vshep
@comcast.net | Just wait a while
*sits back and waits for the hacked firmwear for the routers to show up..* |
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banditws6
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join:2001-08-18
Naples, FL
·Comcast
| Barf...
Shameless marketing sellout alert!
I used to buy Belkin components, but now I'll just stick to cables. At the very least, products that lack the complexity to spam you at will. Jeeze...it shouldn't even be an issue of how easy it is for the consumer to opt out of this. They shouldn't even have to in the first place.
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oliphant5
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Corona, CA
| reply to technick
Re: screw belkin
Ditto. I don't care if it's just a cable...I will never buy a belkin product because of their stupidity with this router spam.
Only by people responding negatively to this kind of crap will these whore companies get the message.
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Transmaster
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Cheyenne, WY
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| reply to cglaser
What blooming idiots
I can't understand the marketers for these outfits which moon of Jupiter did they come from. the internet is like Ham radio. If your company gets a bad reputation it is known worldwide in a very short time. 10 billion dollars of advertisement is negated by one piece of junk.
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Re: Belkin router - Idiotic
said by ross :
This product is DOOMED!!! Where do they get these brainless twits?
 That's a great question. I hate to sound arrogant, because I'm really not, but in the last two decades or so, a day does not go by, that I'm not reminded of Ellen Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) classic line in Aliens: "Did IQs sharply drop while I was away?...Yes, IQs have sharply dropped since some of the "Baby Boomers" generation members, self destroyed a significant portion of their cerebral capacity and that of their descendants, by abusing drugs and alcohol in extremes not seen since the latter days of the Roman empire.
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