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Please, for the love of God and the grace of this beautiful Internet, people – Stop crossing the line of being a spammer in hopes to leverage a few dollars from your friends via ad revenue. We’ve run this blog for over a year and never had the need to treat our friends and followers like they need to see more ads than expected with a blog…

Adjix is a service that creates a tiny URL, but embeds an ad along the top of the page, forcing you to click the “eject icon” in the upper left of the frame to get rid of it. There’s no doubt this company is running affiliate benefits, and tracking your activity online, that’s a given. What really bugs me is… People I know are using this garbage, immediately devaluing my perception of their judgement and despiration to turn a buck.

These types of services, much like that God forsaken “Mudpie” crap Twitter people started using last week, are environment hazards for the Internet we’re trying to EVOLVE. So, please… Don’t use this junk. Want to shorted a URL? Try is.gd – they’re a great service and available from Twhirl.

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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 2:24 pm • Category: Micro-blog • Trackback

  • I know that spamming is wrong, but I haven't used adjix before.. and I'm a bit clueless about this topic, your definition about adjix doesn't seem enough for me..

    or maybe I'm too 1990's and left far behind with new ones.. anyway, I'll try to research about this one..
  • Anita Cohen-Williams
    I like using the Adjix service for websites because it is not in your face, and I can choose the types of ads. A lot of ad-supported websites like About.com and others use similar tools.
  • Mr. Gutierrez:

    It looks like we struck a nerve with you regarding our service, Adjix. To be fair, I think we deserve a little credit. Not only can people create simple "No Ad" redirects, but we're one of the rare companies who let their viewers remove ads.

    For example, I cannot remove the ads on this blog (nor would I expect to). People put in time and effort to create content and direct people to other's content and we believe they should benefit from that.

    It almost seems ironic that our website and blog contain no ads at all. Ads are like rain, we don't like it but we need a little from time to time.

    Additionally, people love our link click data and our Adjix2Twitter feature which lets people tweet URLs in a single click.

    We've elaborated on our thoughts here:
    http://adjix.com/8733

    Also, feel free to check out:
    http://AdjixSucks.com

    Cheers,
    Joe Moreno
    President
    Adjix



  • "For example, I cannot remove the ads on this blog" - Firefox has a handy plug in for that, if you don't like ads at all. The venue that the ads are presented are here to help pay for hosting of MY site. Having your spam run along the top of my site, if someone were to choose to adjix to me, devalues my potential ad revenue... and my site doesn't benefit from your ads as they appear on my site.

    I hope you can see the logic in the horrible business model you've created, and how it can damage sites, damage reputations, and pretty much cause people to "be a magpie" to their friends, which is an utterly distasteful service in and of itself.

    "It almost seems ironic that our website and blog contain no ads at all." It doesn't have to, you score your ad revenue from other sites' traffic.

    Yea, you struck a nerve with your horrible reasoning and spotty logic. Your service is bad and devalues the Internet, while putting value into your pocket. I congratulate you on a tool that makes you money from other people's work though, in all honesty. That kind of innovation works well, turns good profits, and has been a trick to making money on the Internet for years, but you found a way to do it differently and in a less invasive manner than say - a domain squatter, misspelled domain name squatters, mailing list sellers, and the like.

    Cheers
  • Thanks for the follow up.

    We're keenly aware that some people won't like Adjix which is why we published some simple code at http://AdjixSucks.com that gives webmasters the ability to prevent anyone from "Adjxing" their website. We realize that that we can't please everyone, but we keep trying.

    We learn more from comments like yours than the positive ones.

    All The Best,
    Joe Moreno
    President
    Adjix
    Carlsbad, CA
  • Glad I can help, and I really do think the idea is genius. It wouldn't get under my skin as much if I wasn't a web dev/blogger - I'm sure.

    Also, I'm not going to worry about adding the code to any of my sites. As far as I'm concerned, if someone wants to use it, that's on them - and ultimately isn't up to me to decide whether or not adjix is used to get to me or not.

    If, for some reason, it provides incentive for people to share more links because they feel that they need to be compensated for their copy/paste time? That's up to them.
  • Word. is.gd is good, plain and simple. Once they have a critical mass, they'll prop flip on ads as well, but until then... :-)
  • I swear, I'm becoming an advocate for tasteful Internet revenue methods.
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