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I JUST SPENT A HALF HOUR TO DOWNLOAD THE "FREE"RESCUE DISK AND SCAN MY COMPUTER FOR PROBLEMS ONLY TO FIND OUY THAT IN ORDER TO DELETE PROBLEMS I HAD TO BUY THE DISK. WHY DO YOU NOT SAY THAT UP FRONT SO AS NOT TO WASTE MY TIME .
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Ah, did you by any chance respond to the ADVERTISEMENT on the Firefox User Support forum? That has nothing to do with this site, you know. It's just an advertisement.

You see, Kerz, you have to put those ads somewhere else.
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ffee7744 wrote:I JUST SPENT A HALF HOUR TO DOWNLOAD THE "FREE"RESCUE DISK AND SCAN MY COMPUTER FOR PROBLEMS ONLY TO FIND OUY THAT IN ORDER TO DELETE PROBLEMS I HAD TO BUY THE DISK. WHY DO YOU NOT SAY THAT UP FRONT SO AS NOT TO WASTE MY TIME .


Thanks for your feedback on the advertisements.

In response to this, we will make it more obvious that the ads are ads.

Can you remember the address of the website that the free rescue disk ad directed you to? We will look into blocking it from appearing again if it's deceptive.
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It's probably the one right at the top of the Firefox Support Forum. It doesn't matter if it's deceptive or not. Those ads all look like part of the site -- like something Mozilla is offering. :omg:
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Alex Bishop wrote:In response to this, we will make it more obvious that the ads are ads.

Can you remember the address of the website that the free rescue disk ad directed you to? We will look into blocking it from appearing again if it's deceptive.


It could have been either one of these Ads by Goooooogle.

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HealthyComputerClub.com/PCRescue

Compare LogMeIn Rescue
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Rescue.LogMeIn.com
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Anonymous wrote:It's probably the one right at the top of the Firefox Support Forum. It doesn't matter if it's deceptive or not. Those ads all look like part of the site -- like something Mozilla is offering. :omg:


Except that this is not a Mozilla site. Mozillazine is independent of the Mozilla Foundation.
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DanRaisch wrote:Mozillazine is independent of the Mozilla Foundation.

Not that anyone would know. The names are curiously similar. If they were'nt in cahoots, MozillaZine would be out of business or would have a different name. But...

Alex Bishop wrote:In response to this, we will make it more obvious that the ads are ads.

it's a moot point for this thread. Evidently I can't read. :)
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Anonymous wrote:
DanRaisch wrote:Mozillazine is independent of the Mozilla Foundation.

Not that anyone would know. The names are curiously similar. If they were'nt in cahoots, MozillaZine would be out of business or would have a different name. But...

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 4934#14934
Alex Bishop wrote:It could have all been so different: MozillaZine was originally going to be a guitar website.


Heh..
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Anonymous wrote:
DanRaisch wrote:Mozillazine is independent of the Mozilla Foundation.

Not that anyone would know. The names are curiously similar. If they were'nt in cahoots, MozillaZine would be out of business or would have a different name. But...


Back in the Neolithic era when MozillaZine started, no-one really cared about protecting the Mozilla trademarks. We should probably make the relationship (or lack of) clearer.
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James wrote:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14934#14934
Alex Bishop wrote:It could have all been so different: MozillaZine was originally going to be a guitar website.


Heh..


<a href="http://www5.localweb.com/fingerstyle/">I wasn't kidding.</a>
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Alex Bishop wrote:
James wrote:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14934#14934
Alex Bishop wrote:It could have all been so different: MozillaZine was originally going to be a guitar website.


Heh..


<a href="http://www5.localweb.com/fingerstyle/">I wasn't kidding.</a>


Those new beta 1.5 versions of guitar picks sure are buggy... I mean my fingers are bleeding, that's it I'm going back to Micropick.
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