Pinterest useless spammy clickbait trolling website - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2022, 02:51:50 am
content: I keep on coming across this site more and more.I was able to just either disable javascript or hide the elements before and just click the link but it looks like they have gone a few steps further.Dimming OverlayDimming overlay hidden, scrollbars hidden, context menu hidden despite clicking a number of times for native menu(clickjacking?)over image.Javascript disabled shows blank page.Isn't that very naughty?Using CSS? against me to hide content when certain viewing conditions (to the user) aren't met that don't suit them.Palemoon with javascript and CSS hidden and seems to show some of the contents and picture.I wonder what purpose does that website serve?It appears to me like it is full of crap where it floods the search engine (with links to other people's contents) which is fine on its own but then clickbaits and trolls the user who click on it to sign up and does a range of things to interfere and obstruct the user's view of the page.I am going add it to as a search terms of unwanted things -"pinterest" and block it on my firewall just incase I click another link again.What do you think?Do any of you use Pinterest?

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2022, 03:31:36 am
content: There is "Unpinterested!" extension for at least chrome. It removes all pinterest results from the image search. Pinterest is cancer.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2022, 04:27:14 am
content: An extension to hide it... wow.I wonder what gives them the power of presence if they are ignored by aware users and an extension despite their user-unfriendly? aggressive behaviour?Could they have some special arrangement with the search engine.Here's a searchable search term for "Search for" in the Vivaldi context menu:DuckDuckGo:QuoteGoogle:QuoteJust incase I accidentally click another one of their links:Hosts file:Quote

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2022, 04:38:19 am
content: They are good at SEO (otherwise they would be dead by now), and Google is shit at filtering out spam. Google used to de-prioritize link farms, but I guess pinterest made a link farm that is somewhat acceptable for google, so they keep it. Although if I had to vote on one thing to completely remove from search results, pinterest would be it. I don't remember any other site that makes google so much worse than it could be.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2022, 08:20:00 am
content: "I wonder what purpose does that website serve?"Now,it's part of FaceBook(that's not the case) it's publically traded, so it's just to acquire more and more and more private data to sell to "interested parties", like political campains, advertisers, (the NSA?), big data companies. Which is probably their only method of generating income.My strategy against this: Taint the data, register as "Joe Rubberduck", etc.pp.

author: dcrookston
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2022, 10:44:21 pm
content: Quote from: ataradov on February 21, 2022, 03:31:36 amIt actually removes Pinterest from all results -- at least the version I'm using does. It just appends the string "-site:pinterest.*" to every search you perform. Simple and effective, I love it.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2022, 10:09:08 pm
content: I always get a relevant image search result, click on it, and it goes to pinterest which gives zero informationThe thing is, no one else seems to have the photo they have.Quote from: Haenk on February 21, 2022, 08:20:00 amHow is it part of facebook, its an independent company.https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PINS:NYSE

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2022, 11:09:11 pm
content: Quote from: thm_w on February 25, 2022, 10:09:08 pmIt's not. As you've said it's a public company (2019). I think the confusion stems from being founded by a former Google employee. And it has the silicon valley ickyness is all over it.I wonder if the original idea was to sell the company to Google.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2022, 11:46:28 am
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 25, 2022, 11:09:11 pmI stand corrected, probably misled by that annoying "Login with Facebook"-requester.The original intention to sell it to Google (or Facebook, Microsoft, Paypal, rumors kept coming over the years) might be true. If they cleverly dump their shares, while still possible, it might still result in more cash than they ever hoped for.

author: dbctronic
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2022, 05:53:29 pm
content: Pinterest is just another site that started out being friendly and free, then gradually began putting your arm up your back by making you get an account and login for full functionality (or indeed any), and obviously phishing for as much marketing info as they can get.I remember when Hulu showed old TV shows and movies for free, and also charged for some premium movies. It wasn't long before the advertising ramped up and the freebies vanished.The online cooking recipe field is another shill. It's amazing how difficult it can be to print a recipe off those sites, and so many now try to present you with a shopping list of necessary ingredients available from some vendor they've hooked up with, who also advertises other stuff.I understand that they are on the Internet to make money. I can accept showing ads. But when they blur their actual supposed business into the marketing side of it, I just leave. I've caught YouTube videos doing similar things lately. Reminds me of actors in 50s TV shows also doing the commercials for their sponsors. Wrecks the illusion of just an evening's entertainment.