Recently two things, out of the ordinary, have been happening. I’m not quite sure why, but they both lead me to the dark corner of the internet that I wish weren’t so. The exploiters, the profit reapers, those who don’t care about the internet and it’s wellfare. Those who exploit others internet experience for their own benefits.

The worst occurences I have heard are from older folks who write the internet off as a bad place. It’s not! I tell them. There are a lot of good things about it, and with any system, there are the good and the bad. Usually they stay unconvinced, but we’re talking about the same people that believe in the FSM.

So what happened?

Trackback Spam. I’ve never received trackback spam. Ever. Suddenly I’m getting twenty new trackback spams a day. For the first day I had it notifying me via gmail and turned that off pretty quick. I can’t figure out why all the sudden I would go from being an obscure target to being hit pretty hard.

And then like that, it was gone.

I also started looking at my traffic stats and started noticing a lot of domains pointing towards me. I wasn’t getting a ton of traffic, and the domains looked totally legit.

http://www.faxad.co.nz
http://www.euroconf.se
http://www.kitchensunlimited.com
http://www.kassa-shop.nl
http://www.evptour.com
http://www.cyberwald.com
http://www.carnahanpresents.com
http://www.igram.net
http://www.mentavius.com
http://www.tofoc.us
http://www.curer.com
http://www.susanshouseofgifts.com
http://www.kishkinta.in
http://www.innersea.hu
http://www.translink.co.nz
http://www.stromlaw.com

All of those sites could be potential sites linking to eleven3. I checked quite a few of them and couldn’t find any links to my site on any of them. So what’s going on? No clue. Some of those sites fall into the new category, “Splog.” Which basically means, if you’re smart enough you will pick it out pretty quick. But if not, uh oh, you’re reading information generated by a CyBorg.

In the end I had the epiphany that if this type of stuff continues, it would infringe on my internet experience. I cannot imagine this kind of stuff happening to people who aren’t that in touch with the web. Fake websites? Misinformation? Pornography and Pedophilia? Yes, these are dark times. The world was better off when the information was controlled by a few rich ol’ white men. Yes, these are dark times.

Thank god for YouTube.

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