One of my ideas is that people who operate advertising spam bots should be made to pay fines to owners of sites where they've been posting completely unrelated ads. Especially since site owners only host advertisements with the agreement of being paid in return by them (whereas spam bots post their adverts without asking first and without paying either). They should then be told to apologise for their inconsideration and their wilful disregardfulness towards everyone who uses those sites. Then all their spam posts should be deleted.
Another one of my ideas is that companies who intentionally use advertising spam bots should be compiled in one large online database of shame—a list of presumeably dodgy companies that might be safer to avoid.
August 19, 2016 at 5:01am