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  • Dropbox

12/3/17

Would you like to use a file hosting service that have a tendency of deleting your files? Then this is for you.

Across the Internet just before the approximate year 2012 or so, almost ALL links to dropbox files suddenly breaks and leads to error 404. This is not because the user purposely deleted them. This can be proven here:
https://smwc.me/******* (if it was deleted on purpose, it would've state the reason)

This is a disgrace, almost as bad as the recent photobucket disaster when they changed their TOS to require $399/year to display images off-site. Again, if the user of Dropbox is inactive, there is no way for that to be fixed unless someone else has a backup available. Use google drive instead.

How can they do this? A site designed for backup and sharing your files (legally), now trashed and gone for good.

EDIT: it happened on March 15,2017. They decided to remove public links and never admitted the reason why.

  • Adobe Systems

11/6/17

My review was late, but they use to be great in the past until they wanted more money out of a consumer's wallet. Give big thanks to alternative software that don't do this cr@p.

Basically on May 5,2013 Adobe decided to make their software only available as "software as a service" rather than selling it as a product from a store. This means you don't actually own it, but renting it. The only good thing I can say about this is that it cost $10 at the cheapest, but as everyone knows, monthly payments will eventually be more expensive than just what you're buying if they were to allow it.

Imagine if you can only rent laptop and not buy it, that would be terrible.

  • Alexmauer.bandcamp

11/5/17

This train wants to crash into other youtubers for containing songs even if played in the background. This is equivalent to celebrity fights, He is basically Jessica Price (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q50oy4-UJM) in terms of passive-agressive and giving the public the middle finger.

I'm not blaming bandcamp at all, bandcamp is good. I'm looking at an horrendous, pugnacious, death threatening, perjuy-est musical artist named Alex Tomas Mauer. Blame part of it on youtube for allowing this.

This user is chiptune music maker who made music for Star Mazarr DSP, River City Underground, and many others. According to SidAlpha on youtube, this user decided to go to war with youtube containing gameplay of video games containing any of his music from the game itself, regardless how small it contains its (transgender user) music, reflecting back on Lenz v. Universal on a video about a baby dancing to a Prince's song. It saddens me the most that youtube's DMCA system does not require proof of infringement, therefore, all you have to do is fill out an application and thats it. I'm pretty sure that the agreement for musical artist to have their musics in video games states that you cannot take down game footage of any kind for any reason.

To top it all off, before the user closes its site, it decided to have the cost of the vaganox to be $1000 to buy it. That's criminal. This user had the nerve to anger its fans to not buy its stuff again.

Combine that behavior with even hitting a police in one of the documents, this user is never going to be a composer ever again for a company.

What this user could've done is have somebody help him out when signing in agreements, many people says this user have mental issues, and that to understand how the offical copyright ststem works. She cannot control how copyright works, she can copyright hisworks but not have more restrictions past the limitations and exceptions of it.

I think his works diserved to be pirated

Tip for consumers:
This person is extremely dangerous, treat her like how Sony BMG's decision to use DRM malware to infect user's PC. Boycott her, just stay away.

  • Benita Epstein Funny Cartoons

11/4/17

Okay, Another DRM added to the website that can easily be bypassed (as in, hello disable right click). What a way to insult users, treating them as potential thief. Why, just read this: https://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/top13not2do2014.html#rightclick. I understand unauthorize uses hurt your business, but don't do what planetware did on their content pages. At least the watermarks on the content are better than hackershomepage, because that site is WAY worse all the way.

Okay, now onto the quality:
-Webpage looks bland. White and grey everywhere with only a few paragraphs of text colored. The caption "Funny Cartoons your readers will love" could be improved font/logo. Wow, nice intro.

-Home page doesn't look welcoming compared to websites you see everyday.

-The copyright notice would be better suited to be placed at the footer of the site, not only in the home page. arstechnica.com did it right.

-There is no FAQ about buying and other stuff, you have to email *******@benitaepstein.com instead. Why this is a problem? Its because people often ignore email addresses, or it gets very busy and can take a long time before the user responds. It's common that messaging to others and they don't respond back, in general.

-There's no search bar to find the name you're looking for.

-Left menu is unnecessarily BLOATED, there are no buttons or other interactions outside that (besides hyperlinks), some of them are meant to be at the home page on the main body:

--Similar items that could've use submenu or merged together to ease users navigating the site.

--Pages with similar titles are split, making users easily get lost. For example: "business-cartoons" and "business-cartoons 2" are in different pages.

--Items aren't alphabetized. If you're updating the site, I recommend putting similar things together, then sort them so you don't have to painstakingly handle large amounts of items.

--There is a huge amout of text under that menu, it includes about the pricing, the author's story (seriously? Put that in a different page titled "my story"), "how to make your presentation memorable", misleading note saying "Cartoons are available for use in electronic, print media or merchandise." (even though there's DRM on the site) and... oh my gosh, if you visit most of the content pages that has images, there are hundreds of tags fill up the remaining portion of the menu bar. Just look at it. Would be better as having it on the main body of the page with show/hide tags button.

--The advertising is too distracting, with colored and inconsistent fonts. Thankfully there are no 3rd party ads on it that could potentially brings pop ups, and other inconviences.

Have this author ever visited a professional website? There is a phrase called "Less is more", which this author probably haven't herd of.

All in all, the website is difficult to even use because of the design, have the author even tested and have somebody check the site to see if it looks right?

Tip for consumers:
There are better stock image websites out there that do a similar thing with better interfaces, better help, and easy to navigate, and not using DRM.

  • Fox Entertainment Group

8/27/17

What do I have to say, it one of those groups who abuses the copyright system and grinds them to the dust. Along with Viacom, Fox, Universal studios, and others, they are the sh#t-eating companies who attacks on talkers and content makers, and just flat out care only about their IP *OVER* the limitations of copyright stated in law. If they can take legit stuff down they hate, they definitely will.

It follows Viacom path:
-It takes down any content even if they are legal (such as fair use). Reviewers on youtube such as TheMysteriousMrEnter constantly got attacked throughout posting critiques on many TV shows and other content.
-Supports a "destroy the internet" SOPA bill. This bill allows copyright holders to deny access to websites they don't like, it allows them to sue website owners for liability for their site having infringing content, rather than the uploader, and exposes libraries to prosecution. You care more about your IP than your customers and viewers. Wow, good for you, expect more people to hate you.
-Steals other peoples videos, for example, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed59WhzXlkk. For this example, they even DMCA that original video posted years ago, claiming that this footage belong to Fox (this youtube user "sw1tched" posted this on Feb 21,2009, and got nuked on just after May 14,2016 (the day it was first aired)) Yes another irony that even the MPAA made illegal copies of Kirby D! Ck's movie.

Tip for consumers:
One day, they probably play as being the pirates.

  • Rayfile

7/29/17

When I was downloading a file off from this site, Avira sounded the alarm and shows me a bunch of PUP (potentially unwanted programs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_unwanted_program)

In case if you don't know, PUPs are software, potentially malware, that is bundled with the disired software you want to download. I would only tolerate ads if it is on a webpage and is contained within a browser tab. Running ads outside my browser is a major no-no.

  • Comcast

7/17/17

This company represents ALL anti-consumer and anti-users business practices AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. They don't want happy consumers, they want money, they want china-styled internet, they want copyright to have more power for liability. They say f*ck you for cancelling their service, and also mail you a bad name.

The actual problems are:
-Crippled internet:
--Supported the unholy SOPA bill. SOPA stands for "Stop Online Piracy Act", one of the worst copyright bill that luckily didn't pass. It basically gives big corporations power to demand ISP to block sites regardless if legal or not.

--Anti-net neutrality. If you thought web filtering was bad, how about the ISP's turn to do the blocking? They are basically trying to completely block sites that they don't want. Even if you take that out, they wanted to slow certain loading sites to force you to pay more, that's greedy and much worse than software companies using crippleware to encourage users to pay the full version (such as a watermark on video editing programs). I know they are trying to prevent piracy, but those sites are not always used for that reason, some of them are used legally, such as a backup, review, etc.

-Lawsuits. I can't count how many they have, but they even violate a law that enforces net neutrality: Hart v. Comcast Corp. (and also false advertising), overcharging users, etc.

-HORRABLE CUSTOMER SERVICE:
--changing customers' name to a bad name, like Ricardo Brown changed to a curse word.
--The bomb that exploded on "Hurricane Ike", basically comcast didn't care if disasters like this happens, you are still required to return their equipment of renting.
--Trying to terminate the service is also bad, just look at other reviews. There are too many issues.
-Overbilling. I mean really.

And more. This company features every possible thing they did that consumer hates

  • Filmora.wondershare

7/10/17

Here are two major issues with the software and the company:
1) Crippleware: Your video gets marred by a watermark that is almost completely opaque and takes up half the screen. Combine with being a software as a service (monthly payments) rather than buying for a 1-time fee like most other software across the internet makes it even worse. You have to subscribe for this if you want good videos, which means that they are greedy, much like adobe when they went subscription-only. Thank god there ARE video editing software that don't have sh! Tty watermarks on it, like Videomeld.

2) The company censors reviews saying about its watermarks, look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MbqrkLplk&t=0s what you see is a video taken down by obviously "Filmora Video Editor". This violates free speech and fair use. They want people to not know what that thing is on their video and get the software to shake down on users.

What they could've done is either make the watermark more transperent or smaller, stop with the false DMCA abuse, and actually disclose to the consumers the full information about the crippleware. (like " make sure you make a backup" or something)

  • Photobucket

7/10/17

EDIT: 11/27/2018 Please check the updates at the bottom.
OLD TITLE: Worst business decision ever since Adobe's move to creative cloud subscription only.
OLD review:
Photobucket, more like photof#cket.
What would you feel if you make a blog, a website or any other post, and then years later, found out that the (old) images were replaced with a message demanding you to upgrade your account to a paid subscription.
Images across the internet using Photobucket are now WREAKED, asking users to pay money to have them hosted (not a one-time fee, a periodic $400/year plan). It's a huge insult that they WOULD DECIDE to have this subscription at the most expensive of all their subscriptions. I am so disappointed to see this forum post of arts just got wiped out:
https://bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-*******-2-1.html.

EDIT
Hotlinks aren't the only ones destroyed, viewing it directly, downloading or otherwise accessing it (even from their own site) on some images SOMETIMES NO LONGER WORKS (the "please upgrade your account" image instead of the image intended). That is a mess. This could be one of the biggest internet DISASTER ever. It's like they're censoring them for ransom. More like hosting images disabled, not just 3rd party.
Many people said they did this because their income are short due to users using adblockers on their site, you know why? Its because your site is heavily infested by ads. At least some news sites, deviantart and wikia step it up on keeping their ads clean. Nobody wants ads that have un-close-able, website access/usability-disabling, redirecting, opening in a new tab, scam hosting, fake close buttons, spawning a separate browser window as pop-ups (including pop-unders), banners/boxes WITHIN the website filling the screen, installing malware, noisy auto-plays that refuses to mute, any browsing-obstructive content placed on a webpage and any other what google describes them as "abusive experience". I've experienced mediafire and rayfile doing this cr@p with clicking on the (real) download button. Viewing it on mobile is EVEN WORSE, just run away.
This company turned to sh! T the way imageshack (better to be called imageshat) did. They had the nerve to turn their backs to say "no, it's no longer free" and prevent hosting images. What's worse is that they don't give enough warning to all its users that there is a change in terms of service.
The first time I saw this was on smwcentral, and it look god awful: http://smwc.me/*******
I hope this practice does not spread to multiple companies that host images like cancer, if any of them were to act this way, then there is no way to host your images permanently, like an avocado thats opened. Better to use google drive and link without hotlinking.
If you're an active user who wanted to fix your post, you have a FIELD DAY of fixing thousands of images across the internet you posted. If you're inactive, its gone forever. They could've make only images uploaded after that point be blocked, but they decided to screw it all.
EDIT: give a shout to Michel van Heijster for making a script that makes fixing your images WAY easier, download here: https://bitbucket.org/michelvh/photobucketscraper. Not sure if this is gunna work with if the image view on photobucket got replaced.
Thank god someone was smart enough to help others with this problem.
EDIT2: There is an browser add-on that circumvent this "hotlink protection" called "photobucket hotlink fix": https://github.com/Ryan-Myers/photobucket-embed-fix. What I want you to do is use that extension to enable viewing images, then download them ("save as"). It should download the actual image. Now reupload that image to another site (that does not do sh! T like photobucket did) and post a message stating that you backed up the image as intention to help visitors reading it.

11/27/2018 update: They have improved their business models and no longer block images anymore but rather watermarked them on outside sites. Now lets hope they continue to grow. The only sad problem now is due to the nature of how hotlink detection works, web archives cannot archive them as the hot inked content can read your URL. But you can download their originals.

Tip for consumers:
Be very careful if you intend of using the internet archive to save a page that uses images from photobucket, the hotlink detection prevents saving the original image, even on redirected one if you try to view the image address.

  • pixiv

6/29/17

If you are an anime fan, you're going to like this, its a website where users can submit their drawings online for others to view. Just like deviantart, their ads don't redirect users to malware. I especially love when users submit any anime characters that are 8-head proportion, as well as "pokemon anthropomorphism" ().

The only malicious ads I faced are the mobile site (touch.pixiv.net), thankfully, recently I have no issues so far.

  • MediaFire

6/29/17

After seeing dropbox destroying download links, this seems okay at avoiding this.

I've realized it is not the site's fault for having malicious ads (which is why I gave a higher rating than before), as it is the ad network prone to attack. Thanks to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgs8h2pu-1I instead of clicking on the true download button (I said true because ads can be deceptive on the display) you would right-click on it instead and "save link as" or something similar (I'm using Google Chrome by the way). Just make sure your browser is up to date and so is your anti-malware software.

I would rather have anti-malware and avoid triggering ads than to use an ad-blocker because using ad-blockers could cause the site to do what photobucket have done.

I do dislike when ads do these following:
-Popups, and new tabs being opened.
-Do anything else besides closing when I wanted to close if it is a in-window box that prevents me from using the site (fake close buttons are examples of this)
-Redirects to any scam sites (tech support scams, congratulations), Amazon cards or just about any site.
-Drive-by downloads.

But I do dislike when sites be fallen because of the overuse of ad blockers AND that nobody is reporting them, causing attacks to be secret and makes this entire situation even worse.

If you are a professional anti-malware company that voluntarily help with websites be safe (I'm looking at you, malwarebytes), please at least weekly check this site' ad network. It's a popular site and that can be a big target for a large number of users.

  • Viacom

5/15/17

This company is notorious for false DMCA takedowns of their shows on youtube. They don't care if a copyrighted content was hosted without their permission when it falls under fair use or other exceptions of the law, they want to be above it and try to expand what copyright can restrict like all other copyright maximalist. They're also desperate to try to remove liability limitations to try to attack websites hosting their content posted by their users, proven that they try to support (and later failed) 2010 "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" and the more recent duo bills of 2011-12 "Stop Online Piracy Act" and "PROTECT IP Act" (all of them which also failed).

Not going to watch spongebob, not going to watch any of their channels, and most definitely never going to even think of buying anything that has the viacom (oops, I mean viac*m) logo attached to it. Why would I support a company to encourage them to send more DMCA threats?

June 29,2018 update:

During the lawsuit with youtube, its funny that the company uploads their stuff on youtube, then sues youtube for having that on youtube. Give me a break. If you give someone your stuff, you cannot suddenly punch them in the face for having it. What a hypocrite and a liar.

(what if copyright-maximalist companies to do this or similar if SOPA, PIPA and other stupid legislation passed?)

  • PlanetWare

4/18/17

In content pages about the regions uses a DRM that block right click. I understand unauthorized use of your content hurts your business, but this insult users using your site, as this treats them as potential image thief. Not only that, this DRM can easily be bypassed, so it is nothing more than an inconvenience to visitors. Just look here for more of why this is bad: https://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/top13not2do2014.html#rightclick

Why not have it like PDF, only the "copy" function is greyed out. With the right-click menu disabled, it disables legit functions on there as well. Sometimes, that menu is needed in case users are using certain browsers in which the normal click doesn't work at all and need the "Open link in x" function.

Thankfully, this can easily bypass with a number of extensions as well as disabling certain browser features.

I do understand that you don't like people using your content, but don't go full blast on the restrictions to users.

Might as well mousetrap visitors from leaving the site as well.

  • Hackers Home Page

4/18/17

There is so many problems with the site:

-Homepage looks horrendous. The very first thing you see when you look it up immediately gives you a complete vomit mess of:

--Inconsistent use CAPS locks of text that makes a text document with all of its text in all caps more professional. I rather use comic sans font this this awful design. They even use flashy colors on it to... I don't know, give seizures to attract visitors?

--The logo at the top-center of the page. Let me explain this for all best logos to be used as an image: the background does not "repeat frequently" in short distances of each one, every logo you see are not simple text font (drawn by art, not typed on keyboard) with any creative design. This site has NONE of that. To me, it looks like it was made by a 5-year old.

--Country flags, I mean its nice that it allows users to translate the page, but users often use a search engine and even supported browsers (such as chrome) that have a translate feature. This makes having a locust swarm of images depicting country flags redundant, hell, professional websites that do include language settings are to be a simple button that when clicked, shows a dropdown list of languages would look better.

--Good backgrounds. Gotta love green, green and more green without a box to separate objects on the site.

All successful good websites tries to look good by following the "less is more", which means don't go extreme on the decoration. You don't have to make your site number 1 best looking, thousands or even millions does this and attracted more people. I understand you want people to buy your product by having more design to it, but don't go overboard on it. Now moving onto objects on the site

-Content:
--Who loves opaque copyright watermarks that blocks the view on the images and videos? Not only you are being harassed and insulted by deliberate inconvenience, you are also harassed even more by a warning on the bottom of the page that ANY use is not allowed, and NEVER mentions "without our permission" or "authorized", therefore treating you like a thief. It gives an allusion or implied message that they could go against reviews too if they are like users on youtube who abuses youtube's copyright system (users like matthosszone and ZMproduction (see his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0D-Z8spiMBT0KxhuIRvQ2w)) to silence critics. Please sitejabber, protect this review, just in case. I especially love it when actual "pirates" can simply paste an image of their own name or logo over it to say it belongs to someone else instead.

---This is why watermarks is weak. Even the watermark itself looks horrable in terms of font size with other text, even mexus education doesn't use bad font when they did it on their videos.

---I understand its your (as in, all who puts watermarks, not just hackershomepage.com) hard work, but you gotta understand that visitors don't want inconveniences like this. For videos, this is like always-online DRM, it stays there for the entirely of the video. In general, you are putting a censor bar over the view to block what people want to see. Use transparent text, or else people will hate your content being marred by it. Good job, you shot people dead with an FBI warning onto their eyes.

--Just like any bad image usage with the logo of the page, they use stock images. Yes, STOCK IMAGES, as in clip arts (which is simple images without any creative design whatsoever). I seen worst products such as a bad game named "plumbers don't wear ties" that use baby images on the back of the jewel case. They don't even bother to edit to have a transparent background (so a white square around the object in the picture, rather than a transparency space so you can see the background of the website through the image). It also have "cutoff" on the edges of the image that looks like it was slapped onto the site.

-Behavior towards customers/visitors (not just customer service):
--I visited many news sites, such as http://www.miaminewtimes.com. I go there with a reason: to get info about an event that happened recently. However, advertisement is NOT what I'm here for. There is a chance that either it redirects me to another site, or brings a pop-up window (within a browser, not a separate window) with a fake close button that acts as if you click on the ad itself. I contacted them via e-mail and they NEVER RESPOND. They could've at least apologize "saying sorry..." or anything similar.

How is this related to this site? Well its not about ads, but their contact is similar to this. There are reports of this site about scamming people: https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/hackers-home-page-c*******.html. This is worst than just ignoring consumer complaints. Customers expect that this sites is basically a hacking site for testing stuff and its security vulnerabilities (like if a person bought a machine and wants to "hack" to test it) as the site stated its intentions, and get their money stolen like an item got stuck in a vending machine. Treat this site like any tech support scam website and stay away. They don't deserve your money. DO NOT trust their disclaimer at the footer of the page.

To sum this all up, even mcafee blocked me from going into that site. This site HATES visitors and consumers (is the site trying to be a vigilante against hackers?). It tries to be flashy and disgusting to attact people to hurt their retinas and feelings, warns not to talk about this this site with their copyright policy, have ugly website appearance, and scamming consumers.

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