{"id":45,"date":"2009-11-03T23:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T07:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/749718655"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:54:14","slug":"ad-fail-facebook-zwinky-com-cartoon-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/ad-fail-facebook-zwinky-com-cartoon-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Fail: Facebook & Zwinky.com – Cartoon Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Facebook<\/a>I was on Facebook today and came across this advertisement in the sidebar. Is it me, or is this just plain sad? Holy destroy our self-esteem as a society and make fun of others, Batman! I hope they paid the guy who is in the picture or at least got a consent form. Is it just that I am getting to be older and beginning to see things more clearly or am I just turning into a prude? I am disgusted by this ad. I see no humor in this at all, although I understand that many will find it hilarious and that is also sad.<\/p>\n

The ad ultimately points to Zwinky.com, which wants you to install a web browser toolbar. Total Ad Ware crap, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

Zwinky.com is owned my IAC Search & Media and MANY users beside me also consider it adware. When looking at Zwinky.com on McAfee’s Site Advisor out of 176 people who left feedback, 6 rated the site good. The majority (140+) rated the site as “Adware, spyware, or viruses” and the rest was mixed between “Browser exploit, “This site spams,” and “Excessive popups.”<\/p>\n

Do I think Facebook is to blame? No, but\u00c2\u00a0not only is this and Ad Fail, but a total Experience Fail\/Company Fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was on Facebook today and came across this advertisement in the sidebar. Is it me, or is this just plain sad? Holy destroy our self-esteem as a society and make fun of others, Batman! I hope they paid the guy who is in the picture or at least got a consent form. Is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,21,40],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bills-soapbox","tag-facebook","tag-fail","tag-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t