The Compers Inn - Part 28

blondie0210

Anyone use prizes.co.uk Is it any good? Can anyone recommend good comp sites for me (yeah got a little addicted!!)

fire**fly

blondie0210 wrote: »

Anyone use prizes.co.uk Is it any good? Can anyone recommend good comp sites for me (yeah got a little addicted!!)

hiya blondie :wave:

velvetgloves guide has a great list of sites to avoid,
& the guide is a great help to get all the info needed for here & comp questions..

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1014121


11 Are there any sites, from experience, which are likely to generate lots of spam?
There are a few which have come to our collective attention as sites that, when used for comps, seem to generate lots of unwanted postal, email & phone call attention. These are listed below for your information, however, please do remember that this is only the collective opinion of other MSE Compers & does not necessarily reflect upon the sites themselves.

2minutedraw
4FreeUK
ABCWins
Clash Club/Clash media
Club La Costa
Consumer Lifestyles
Consumer Opinions
Craftomatic Beds (Comps appear to be just a way to get a salesman into your home, especially if vulnerable/alone)
Emailinform
EZ Prize Giveaway
Fair Exchange
GetMeATicket
GetYourBillsPaid
GreatUKsurveys
Guide2Win
InstantPrizeDraw
Just-Rewards
Lingscars
MyChild (pester with phone calls quite badly, but Compers have won with them - suggest do not give a phone number!) New owners since 2009, who do not ring out now. Will be removed from here totally once the word is out!
MyConsumer
MyFamilyUK
MyOffers
NoizeMakesEnemies (Care - your profile with name, address, phone number & email appear to be on show with no way to make it private!!)
Nuts (comps.nuts.co.uk - comps are now run by the data collecting company Data Media & Research Ltd.)
OffersClick
Opinioniser
Optimax (phone calls, letters & emails!)
PickMeUpMagazine (comps.PickMeUpMagazine.co.uk - Care: the magazine comps seem to be unaffected, but any comps which direct to this site are run by the data collecting company Data Media & Research Ltd)
Premier Christian Radio (lots of postal junk mail even when you opt out of future contact)
Prize4U
Plum Offers
PrizePunch
RewardsToday
Simple2Win
SupremeOGlaze (linked to Weatherseal below)
Space Kitchens (see thread here)
Tickbox
Topfox
Toyhound
UK-PrizeDraw
VoiceInACrowd
Vouch4me
Weatherseal
Weather Wherever
Willowbrook (chairs) (have pestered with phone calls quite badly on some comps - see here and also here)
Win 4 Now
Win24
Zenith Windows (linked to Weatherseal above)


hth xxx

Amilucky?

wasn't quite sure where to post's this! decided to post in the inn so more people would see it

after reading about Skimlinks and the information that it sends I thought to myself I wonder what other information is disclosed when posting on MSE and so I decided to dig a little deeper

I first found this site which displays Competitions Time group user activity
http://boardreader.com/fp/www_moneysavingexpert_com_13475/Competitions_Time_597926.html

and was then amazed to find this site which tracks every MSE's user activity
http://www.boardtracker.com/profile/3706/493519

the number at the end of the link is your member profile no/id the site displays user activity on a daily,weekly and monthly basis and shows it on a graph

the free version doesn't display much but quite worryingly there is a premium version which promises the following

Member Ego Network gives an insight into members' social activity and network, helping you understand who they interact with, how much and in what nature. Do they lead discussions or led by others? isolated, or have many friends? follow or lead within their own personal network? How much do their friends post and do they also communicate between themselves? Who are the dominant players in the network? and much more... Is this member an Opidion Leader? Greeter? Answer person? Question person? Initiator? Drive-by shooter? Networker? Maybe a spammer?

AuthorLines gives an insight into members posting activity over the past year, helping you understand who a member is? Do they post mainly in their own threads or in other people's? heavily discuss matters or post once and move on? post in many discussions or just few? post more now than in the past or have they left the board recently? Move beyond just understanding the post to fully understanding who is behind it... Together with Member Ego Network, you can quickly understand who members REALLY are!

to say I'm shocked by the above is an understatement :eek::eek:

fire**fly

Amilucky? wrote: »

wasn't quite sure where to post's this! decided to post in the inn so more people would see it

after reading about Skimlinks and the information that it sends I thought to myself I wonder what other information is disclosed when posting on MSE and so I decided to dig a little deeper

I first found this site which displays Competitions Time group user activity
http://boardreader.com/fp/www_moneysavingexpert_com_13475/Competitions_Time_597926.html

and was then amazed to find this site which tracks every MSE's user activity
http://www.boardtracker.com/profile/3706/493519



to say I'm shocked by the above is an understatement :eek::eek:

hiya amilucky :wave:

knew about the board reader
http://boardreader.com/fp/www_moneys...me_597926.html
ages ago but didn't know they also did all that other stuff :eek::eek:
thanks for letting us know :A

Amilucky?

I feel that everyone has a right as to what is downloaded and disclosed by there computer and they also have the right to block content which they do not like

if like me you feel the same and you are using Firefox download the add-on Add Block Plus and in preferences add the following filter rules

Skimlinks
http://moneysavingexpertcom.skimlinks.com/api/vb.mse.js
/skimlinks.js
/skimlinks/vb.js

Google Analytics
|http://www.google-analytics.com/*

Best of Luck

finatra26

This is very interesting Amilucky & a bit scary too - I also know I definately talk too much now but at least I am in lovely company (see the top authors list) on boardreader

Amilucky?

Think that maybe I should stop digging as I'm beginning to frighten myself :eek:

however I will leave you with this the information on the following pages

I first found this site which displays Competitions Time group user activity
http://boardreader.com/fp/www_moneys...me_597926.html

and was then amazed to find this site which tracks every MSE's user activity
http://www.boardtracker.com/profile/3706/493519

is being relayed via MSE to Google Analytics who then make the information openly available to sites like the above!

from Wikipedia

Google Analytics is implemented by including what is known as a "page tag". This is referred to as the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) and is a hidden snippet of JavaScript code that the user adds onto every page of his or her website. This code acts as a beacon, collecting private visitor data and sending it back to Google data collection servers for processing

Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website.

Privacy Issues

Google Analytics, due to its ubiquity, raises many privacy concerns. Whenever someone visits a website that uses Google Analytics, Google tracks that visit via the user's IP address. Because so many websites use Google Analytics, Google is able to track visitors across websites, theoretically giving Google a real-time view of the traffic on much of the web.

In addition, since Google also has personally identifiable information for more individuals than any other statistics service, there is a significant potential for abuse.

gemima27

Hi all,

Hope its ok to jump in to the convo, looks like google should rename themselves Big Brother - they take pics of your house, follow your net movements - as long as they don't start monitoring my housework!!!!! :eek:

divadee

a new inn has been opened here