Minor vent - mag daily 'partner offers'

CCP

I've recently started doing the mag dailies, mostly at work in my lunch break as a pleasant way of switching my brain off for 20 minutes! What is really annoying me about them, though, are the 'partner offers' you have to go through before submitting your answer.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with the offers themselves - they're as good a way as any for the magazine websites to make money out of running competitions - but what does really annoy me is that, if you click on 'yes' by mistake, the offer immediately vanishes and signs you up to the relevant mailing list, giving you no chance to correct your mistake. I've just had to contact one of these companies to ask them to remove my details from their mailing list as I had signed up in error: to be fair, they did so immediately, but their acknowledgement was sufficiently terse as to suggest that it's far from the first time it's happened.

Why can't the links be set up so that you can change from 'yes' to 'no' before submitting if you've made a mistake, and save on aggravation for both comp entrants and the companies running the offers? :mad:

Sorry, vent over!

pesky_princess

ive signed up 'by mistake' many a time lol I used to do them on my ipad and was very easy to touch the screen on the no thanks but it be slightly off aim and touch yes please by mistake - it is annoying, you are right! I enter them on my laptop now and hve set up RoboForm to fill in the no thanks for me so don't have that trouble anymore thank goodness!! RoboForm is the way to go for these! lol

createbeauty

I find them pretty annoying as most of the 'offers' are just spam. Such as MyOffers.co.uk. I feel sorry for the people who waste their time on there thinking they're entering legit comps when all it does is generate spam.

On another note, this thread could be helpful if you don't mind downloading RoboForm. It can tick the No Thanks for you.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4201851

CCP

Glad to know it's not just me who finds them really annoying!

Unfortunately, because I generally do the mag dailies at work, I can't use RoboForm as we're blocked from downloading anything on to the office computers. I will have a look at it for use at home, though - thanks.

chealehay

Hi CCP, could you not run RoboForm from a usb stick? You would not be downloading it, and it claims it leaves no personal data after.

LizB62

chealehay wrote: »

Hi CCP, could you not run RoboForm from a usb stick? You would not be downloading it, and it claims it leaves no personal data after.

I'll second that - I used to enter comps during my lunch break years ago, and had Roboform on a USB drive.
Then they changed the corporate security so any USB drive got encrypted, so I couldn't use Roboform any more :-(

labazs

i find most of them are spam type adverts and highly annoynig its so easy to click wrong box i just want to do the comp!

CCP

chealehay wrote: »

Hi CCP, could you not run RoboForm from a usb stick? You would not be downloading it, and it claims it leaves no personal data after.

I never even knew that was possible! *Off to investigate at lunchtime.*