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Title: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Sorflakne on 13 Dec 2011, 17:44

Ok, so I go to type in www.questionablecontent.com into my address bar to try and get to the comic, and instead, I get taken here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00503EAG2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=qc0d7-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B00503EAG2). 

Thinking I mistyped something, I type the QC address again, and it takes me to the same site.  No idea how or why it's happening, since I never visited that particular site before (I have no interest in CoD 3).  Has this happened to anyone else?

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Dec 2011, 17:58

Quote from: Sorflakne on 13 Dec 2011, 17:44

Ok, so I go to type in www.questionablecontent.com into my address bar to try and get to the comic, and instead, I get taken here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00503EAG2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=qc0d7-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B00503EAG2).  

Thinking I mistyped something, I type the QC address again, and it takes me to the same site.  No idea how or why it's happening, since I never visited that particular site before (I have no interest in CoD 3).  Has this happened to anyone else?

Browser hijack of some sort?

Of course, it might be that the comic's actual URL is http://questionablecontent.net/.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Sorflakne on 13 Dec 2011, 18:21

Ahh, that might be it  :psyduck:

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: valley_parade on 15 Dec 2011, 07:43

Questionable Content dot net...it's dot com.

(http://www.flakmag.com/features/images/homestar.jpg)

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: DrPhibes on 15 Dec 2011, 09:47

I wondered how you can post something here and not notice it's adress being .net and not .com.
How do you come here even without having it linked somewhere within your browser?  :psyduck:

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Radical AC on 15 Dec 2011, 11:23

 :mrgreen: Maybe he is using AOL keywords, dogg.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Welu on 15 Dec 2011, 15:27

I type .com once in a while out of habit even though I know the site is .net.

Why the .com brings you to Call Of Duty is odd. :psyduck:

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: LTK on 15 Dec 2011, 15:42

I bet Activision rented the domain for a while, looking to scavenge on some advertising. Not sure why they'd pick this webcomic as a target demographic though. Does anyone here even play that shit?

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Sorflakne on 15 Dec 2011, 17:56

The QC link was in my address history for a few years, so I just opened that and clicked the site whenever I came to visit.  This week is the first time I've typed in the site address in a looooong time.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Jace on 15 Dec 2011, 19:33

Quote from: LTK on 15 Dec 2011, 15:42

I bet Activision rented the domain for a while, looking to scavenge on some advertising. Not sure why they'd pick this webcomic as a target demographic though. Does anyone here even play that shit?

Could have just been looking at the raw numbers of how many people visit .com rather than .net per day and assume that some would have to be fans of their game.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Carl-E on 15 Dec 2011, 19:38

But really, what would you be looking for if you were visiting questionablecontent.com? 

Surely not comics. 



OR games...

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Zingoleb on 15 Dec 2011, 19:41

Well, you could be looking for comics or games.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: pwhodges on 15 Dec 2011, 23:48

All they want is hits (see also: spammer, link farm).

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Zingoleb on 16 Dec 2011, 10:05

I had a spammer on my yahoo account earlier today go by the name of Odetta. It was amazing.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 17 Dec 2011, 07:50

I used to get spam with random words thrown together for the subject line, and snippets of Jane Austen in the body. It was kinda awesome.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Carl-E on 17 Dec 2011, 08:55

I'd gotten stuff like that too, in the past.  It was generated by a spam-bot program that someone put together to fool several basic filters by avoiding the ultra-short messages that just have a link and certain keywords in the subject. 

Some of them used Walden, which was interesting.  You could load in any text for the program you wanted. 

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Dec 2011, 10:28

That kind of spam is still around, I assure you.

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: Carl-E on 17 Dec 2011, 11:58

I guess my school just has a better filter   :-D

Title: Re: This is confusing the hell out of me
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Dec 2011, 12:03

 :-P I see them when I'm checking what my filter has removed, thank you.