Aphorism #184 Do not be Ceremonious.

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Aphorism #184 Do not be Ceremonious.

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Again, what's with the ads?



I didn't want to click on them, but the url linked to in the blue things at the bottom is something called feedburner.com. In 2008 (according to Wikipedia) Feedburner migrated to google.com, and so the service started to use feedburner.google.com instead of feedburner.com.

I'd guess it was just an attempt to see if people would use these (pretty cool, imo) quotes as something to share with friends, and thereby maybe get some of them to check out this site? Perhaps it's a tool that came with this forum software a few years ago or something.

I'm still not going to click on it, but it isn't a direct link to malware anyhow. But that's weird that an insurance commercial is involved somehow. And there's always the danger that a safe site might feature paid ads designed to drag people into something less than safe (e.g. Yahoo.com and teeth-whitener ads).