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The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com

Posted by timothy on from the let-her-stalk-you-for-a-change dept.

eldavojohn writes ""Some of your classmates are trying to contact you!" reads one e-mail. Attempts to remove yourself from the mailing list may only result in more mailings from the site of ill repute. Well, Ars Techica brings us news of a suit against Classmates.com. You don't need to look far for anti-classmates.com sentiment spreading like wild fire across the tubes." Good next target: ads that say "you've already won" some expensive toy.

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  1. Case in point by Sockatume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flash banner instructs me that I should go to specsavers. I did, in fact, go to specsavers several years ago, where I purchased the spectacles I now look through, if not the actual lenses.

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  2. Lower internet prices... by ohxten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe Comcast will start charging less now for their internet if Classmates.com goes out of business, what with the huge decrease in used bandwidth thanks to the absence of these God-forsaken ads.

    Oh, nevermind, we're talking about Comcast here.

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