bcc1234 - 6:18 pm on Sep 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

Data collection sites that offer free gifts, subscription services etc., in order to collect private information

What about honest newsletters?
One of my sites is a weekly newsletter about a certain craft.
I advertise it as a newsletter and the only thing on the landing page is the description of the newsletter and the signup box.
There are sites that force you to enter your e-mail (and agree to receive promotions from "partners") to get some free gift. But that's not the kind of site that I run.

I guess they just generalize, which sucks.

eBook sites that show frequent ads or install malware

Hmm, that doesn't make sense.
What do ebooks have to do with ads or malware?

I have plenty of sites where I sell ebooks, not about making money, or diet, or bad credit, or anything else that comes to mind when one thinks about ebooks. There is nothing fishy going on. PDF files is just a cost-effective way to deliver information, which also happens to offer instant gratification to the customers.

I guess they just generalize, which sucks. Hmm, I already said that.