Hurt microsoft where it counts

[rbo83]

If any of you or your friends are hotmail or msn users, use adblock in your browser and block everything that refers to rad.msn.com This is where Microsoft collects pennies (from their advertisers) for every ad it displays on the screen. So no pennies to microsoft from your using hotmail ! AND tell all the people you know, whether on Windows or Linux. I know very few people who do not have either an msn or hotmail account for when they travel, junk mail and other purposes (anonimity).

Posted also on fedoraforum

[starcraft.man]

Uh, raises hand... all of mine are gmail accounts. Pardon my scepticism but I'm pretty sure if you want to hurt MS, you cut them off at the knee caps (ouch, I dunno why I used that expression) and get people to stop buying Office and Vista (as well as other sub par products like OneCare). Thats how to hurt them in the wallet. So tells your friends not to buy those... I don't think a few pennies for ads on any scale will stack up against millions of purchases of Vista and Office both for hundreds of dollars...... >.>

Oh and all of my friends use Gmail... since a long time. Are yours stuck in the late 90's?

[happy-and-lost]

Yup :D

Also, switch to Gmail. You don't get any irritating ads attatched to the bottom of your emails, and there are all kinds of shiny checkers for it available. (I have invites!)

[ThinkBuntu]

To really hurt Microsoft, post senseless flamebait on /.

[Cyvros]

I still have Hotmail accounts, but for Messenger (since barely anyone I know uses Jabber), I use my Gmail address. I prefer to go for the 'insulting' approach.

[aysiu]

Why would you have a Hotmail account if you wanted to hurt Microsoft?

[runningwithscissors]

Why would you have a Hotmail account if you wanted to hurt Microsoft?++

[jkeyes0]

Yup :D

Also, switch to Gmail. You don't get any irritating ads attatched to the bottom of your emails, and there are all kinds of shiny checkers for it available. (I have invites!)

Btw, Gmail is open now. http://mail.google.com/mail/signup

[happy-and-lost]

Btw, Gmail is open now. http://mail.google.com/mail/signup

Aww... I don't feel special anymore...

[karellen]

hmm....maybe I have something better to do than trying to hurt microsoft...;)

[mozetti]

Furthermore, doesn't ad-block just prevent the browser from displaying ads? MS would still get $ anyway, you just wouldn't see the ads.

[shen-an-doah]

I still use hotmail, mainly cos I've had the address for years and I can't bothered changing everything that has my address...

[PhatStreet]

Mere pennies aren't going to hurt them. If you want to "hurt" them, you have to convince businesses, schools, and other users to not purchase their products.

[shen-an-doah]

Mere pennies aren't going to hurt them. If you want to "hurt" them, you have to convince businesses, schools, and other users to not purchase their products.

Or kick 'em in the nuts...

[Mazza558]

Yup, Gmail is the way to go.

[use a name]

Lobby for laws prohibiting public services to waste money on IT.

[matthinckley]

Or kick 'em in the nuts...
Seconded!

[lyceum]

Why would you have a Hotmail account if you wanted to hurt Microsoft?

+1

It would be better jsut to get them to switch to gmail. Gmail is better anyway!

[WinterWeaver]

Stop trying to hurt MS...
Start Building Ubuntu!!!

[hillbilly]

I would just concentrate on Linux and stop worrying about "taking-over-the-world-by-destroying-microsoft". Global warming will do that for you !!

[lyceum]

Stop trying to hurt MS...
Start Building Ubuntu!!!

+1

[rbo83]

Furthermore, doesn't ad-block just prevent the browser from displaying ads? MS would still get $ anyway, you just wouldn't see the ads.

No. The hit count is activated only if the ad is actually retieved from the ad database (adblock prevents the retrieval), and the advertiser has paid in advance for a 'hit count' budget, which declines with each browser request.

Further, to those unaware of the numbers, the estimated number of hotmail/msn users is over 220,000,000 worldwide. So I guess a lot of people are still in the 90's...

Remember Microsoft is trying to fight google on advertising revenue. And it is easier to convince someone to use adblock than to switch to LINUX for now, although I have had a little bit of success there.

[aysiu]

Remember Microsoft is trying to fight google on advertising revenue. And it is easier to convince someone to use adblock than to switch to LINUX for now, although I have had a little bit of success there. You don't have to switch to Linux in order to avoid Hotmail. What does Linux have to do with anything?