Where do I go with this - I saw SEVERAL peeps post about this bakery/restaurant meltdown on Facebook, but if it was in my Twitter, G+ feed or an email list posting, I missed it. Not that I'm saying anything about different social networks, I'm just stating a fact...
At least it fulfills my daily quota of drama.
Second link opened up a ton of new tabs with random crap on them (at least they seemed random; I didn't really look at them. I didn't notice any porn, though--tends to be rather obvious when it's there.) So I second something wrong with the second link.
I reconstructed ach-tee-tee-pee second link and went to it, it looked like a news story, but I always run NoScript which is pretty reliable at keeping Firefox from loading such shenanigans. I didn't dare allow any scrips to see what happens.
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But I do want to ask, even if it is true that my ipad may have briefly at some point hit an unsavory website, why does that give anyone the right to hijack a legitimate news link and send me to their foul app instead?
There's no "right" there, the people who do this are criminals. They'll do anything to get more hits on their sites.
Ugh - that's the worst. A couple of years ago, I was helping someone find clipart for a school project and clicked on a cartoonish border design that had a porn link hidden behind it. There's no excuse for hiding those links behind material aimed at kids other than the site owner is trying bring kids onto their site.
(not saying the link you clicked was meant for kids, btw, just a tangent)
As long as it doesn't get the attention of the authorities, they don't care. Porn tends to be advertised through "affiliate links" and they probably get paid by the "click" (which means each window that gets opened).
Though few authors exploding at reviews on the internet get on a reality show and hold press conferences about it afterwards.
No doubt there are authors who would give body parts to
be part of a meltdown on TV get on a reality show, but I doubt such a show would find anything less than a well-known author to be interesting enough.
There've been a recent spate of posts from Amy claiming somebody hacked into their accounts (all of them! srsly?) and there's Absolutely No Way she would have posted such evil, awful, harassing posts.
Has she done the time-honored "I know you are, but what am I?" rebuttal?
"Thank you to all the special people who have been supporting me in private messages through all of this."
Obviously we were misled. I tried for hours and was never able to get the porn site to appear.
Lucky for your computer!
Maybe their next TV appearance should be on Dr. Phil.
"So, Amy, have you been talking with your Shitbrains Anonymous sponsor?"
