Tue, 22 Jan 2008

The Unexpected Click . . .

I don't like to click on a link, image, whatever and have something unexpected happen. I just clicked on an image in a news article and was asked to create a flickr account. Not only that, it knew my Yahoo account. (I understand how this works because I understand cookies and I know that flickr is a Yahoo company, but I don't like it!) I didn't want to create a flickr account or any other account for that matter. I wanted to view the promised pictures from the news article.

Guess what . . . I immediately clicked the clost button on my browser window. I guess that they got the display credits for whatever ads were on the page, but they didn't get me to look at them and they definitely didn't get me to click on anything or go any further.

With all the bad things that can happen on the web, do not surprise me. Don't ask me to sign up for anything or give you any information beyond something that you explained in the source that I clicked. Definitely, don't display any personal information or ask me to give you a password or other login information if I'm not expecting it.

So, there it is. If you expect me to sign up for something, let me know before I click the link.

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