Globat is hell
Thursday, July 24th, 2008NEVER, EVER sign-up with Globat.
- they have a fucking insane “automatic upgrade program”, meaning they automatically provide you with “useful” upgrades. And charge your credit card for it. Automatically. You are given an option to opt-out if you click on some link in some email they send to you some days before the automatic update. I don’t understand how this can be legal. This is even worse than spam.
- they claim to be virus-free, but my website just got hacked! As a result, all pages from CoderCorner are now marked as potentially dangerous on Google. This is so fucking painful. I cleaned the files and requested a new review, but WTF, like I don’t have anything else to do!
- the spam on this blog is so freaking insane, it drives me mad. Yeah, yeah, maybe it’s not their fault, but still, it makes me happy to pretend it is, just to blame them a little more. I just added a “captcha“, as suggested by a smart reader, and removed the previous moderation options. It should hopefully help.
- unfortunately I lost some comments in the process. (Sorry Geyser, in particular). No clue how it happened, but… yes… I’ll blame Globat for that as well.
NEVER, EVER sign-up with Globat.