{"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 &#038; Zwinky.com &#8211; Cartoon Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Cartoon-Yourself1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47 size-full\" title=\"Cartoon-Yourself\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Cartoon-Yourself1.png?resize=173%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Facebook Ad\" width=\"173\" height=\"165\" \/><\/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<p>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<p>Zwinky.com is owned my IAC Search &amp; Media and MANY users beside me also consider it adware. When looking at Zwinky.com on McAfee&#8217;s Site Advisor out of 176 people who left feedback, 6 rated the site good. The majority (140+) rated the site as &#8220;Adware, spyware, or viruses&#8221; and the rest was mixed between &#8220;Browser exploit, &#8220;This site spams,&#8221; and &#8220;Excessive popups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereicarusflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}