My thoughts exactly! Those companies are surely aware of what they are up to and they are just avoiding to get their hands dirty by outsourcing the actual spamming to programmers, which in turn might not be aware of the whole extent of what they are doing. Forcing other people to work extra hours just to remove unwanted commercials is malicious intent to me. I know it's not like they are trying to steal someone's information, but they are purposefully disturbing a website that has nothing to do with sneakers and streaming videos. Well unless it's a fanfic involving those topics of course ;)
Plus, it's theft of ad space. legitimately, companies should be paying for banner ads instead of stealing space in comments. forreal, i wonder if the next wave of generational lawyers will take on spam cases. :<
Don't kid yourself; as a programmer slash website developer myself, I assure you, they know exactly what they're doing. They're targeting this site in particular because Google also takes into account the popularity of the websites mentioning your brand or site. This is especially true of links to external websites. It's just lazy and unethical.
There are legitimate ways to achieve the same results, but I guess that would take too much time/money. For one thing, it would involve actual writing. And why hire a writer to post a well-written, relevant blog post on an appropriate website or three when you can just automatically spam popular sites and get better results because the process is shorter (programmers who do this won't have to create the programs from scratch for each company that hires them, less work, less expensive) and automated?
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