The original Chinese snake oil has real health benefits.
The fake version, not.
Kind of like that Cree thing in reverse.
And if you try to click the link on the model number itself, the G700, it takes you to an error page that says this:
Error 400
Campaign data was not completing when handling click or visit.
HAHHAHHA… “campaign data”… meaning, “we didn’t make them read or watch enough propaganda and lies about this light yet to allow them actually what it looks like”.
I want it a lot less now!
Lol.
Actually, this looks a lot like a zooming light I got from banggood for about $9.
Or, perhaps, meaning “we didn’t plant the adware and trackers on their computer yet ….”
Remember, the goal of the campaign is to conquer territory. We’re the territory.
Sites like Breitbart attract scammers as no offence they know a lot of people with not much in the way of critical thinking ability will see the adds (people like yourself being shaper than the average reader can see through it of course). I have noticed that a lot of those scamming pastors use sites like that to offering blessed water for ‘free’ and stuff like that too.
Y U Know make any Cents?
Pictures?
For the same effort I put into my blog, I could make 5 of those sites, borrow the 10 grand to plaster them on every search engine, and be retired this time next year. It’s not easy having scruples lol.
This was on the page I ran into with this ‘incredible’ G700 light
I’ve seen that image in the bottom right corner somewhere before.
That’s just one side of the problem — but it’s a well documented side.
The Baffler has done quite a few good stories on crap advertising and how it’s being used to fool people.
They go after young people via social media
And — read carefully now — no offense meant to people with conservative political beliefs.
I see credulous people at the edges all around the political circle being scammed by crap advertisers.
The pointer above to the Breitbart ads is just one example.
The ripoff of customers on the conservative side got well nailed by The Baffler in The Long Con.
But don’t freak out if you read that and you’re conservative and feel insulted. It’s only describing one side of a broad ripoff, because it’s a big visible target.
You can find comparable wackywoo bullshit at Huffington and worse the further out you get in either extreme. But they’re smaller, less lucrative targets.
Lots of little publications out there serve narrower, more focused true believers.
Each of them attracts a plethora of advertising aimed at finding people easily fooled by inflated claims and bogus promises.
The advertisers know damn well what populations they’re aiming for.
There are more scammers advertising in conservative publications because those subscribers have more money, they’re older, and more trusting perhaps.
That’s one reason it’s hard sometimes to convince people they’re being scammed.
The ads are in the publications that tell them what they believe is right — and the ads tell them to believe the ads.
Frustrating, when you want to tell people they can do a whole lot better than that.
It also has drawn my attention, so based on that, can we assume it is much brighter than Fenix PD35? :bigsmile:
wow a light you can often buy for $5 or less peddled to the uneducated for $75.
as for campaign data my hosts file and adblock kill that.
What’s funny is that it was a similar ad that landed me on this forum!! I clicked the bait and then started reading the comments. In the comments someone from this forum was calling them out and posted a link and I followed them back to here. And the rest is history!! Now I spend way too much money on “budget flashlights” LOL
Obama has 15% approval among the military and veterans according to CNN.
MSN, Breitbart, the far left Democratic Underground, and others (all) show this ad for a flashlight that claims to be a military flashlight.
I was Airborne also, these lefties are politicizing this thread.
You blog outdoors!! How do you keep the rain off your keyboard??
:party:
Seriously. We here agree we can disagree about politics, religion, hair styles and um I forget what else is on the list …
We can all try to take down the crap advertisers—wherever we see them.
We all care about good, budget, honest flashlights. So let’s stand together where and when we can.
Knowing we have common ground here is a good thing.
Hey, don’t knock it… none of my snakes squeak any more and they slither soooo smoothly across the ground.
I prefer Three Penis Wine.