Personally, in an age of Tinder and other hook-up apps, it’s not needed
Advertising is also a big issue. In our page on MacKeeper we also covered this and it is something we have covered on review pages as well, such as Extreme Testrone. Simply put, they use marketing tactics that are considered underhanded at worst and suspicious at best. BeNaughty are the kings of this, up there with MacKeeper for using tactics that have brought more users to the service but have also forever given it a bad name.
These tactics include pop-ups, pop-unders and other ads that you just can’t get rid of. They put them on porn sites, they put them on sites that are riddled with viruses. Part of the problem (and in some cases the main problem) is that they ave affiliate programs and they don’t have strict restrictions on these programs.
Many affiliate programs will warn their users against using certain methods because they don’t want them to harm the brand. BeNaughty don’t seem to have done that. So, by allowing their affiliates to advertise them through all kinds of dodgy methods, the words “BeN” are so common, so widespread that they might as well be official branding.
Of course, such . But try telling that to the poor sap who just clicked on the wrong link and is now picking apart the remnants of his virtual life as he tries to wade through pop-ups, malware, fake warnings and more, all while seeing the insidious BeNaughty logo everywhere he goes. Continue Reading
