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Rant on Tata Photon earning extra revenue at the cost of user experiencce
  • Vote Up0Vote Down rounakrounak
    Hello everyone,

    I wrote this ( http://rounak.me/hey-tata-photon-am-i-not-paying-you-enough ) last night, frustrated at Tata Photon's excessive use of ads for a paying customer. 

    An excerpt:

    And then I clicked the "connect" button. All my happiness of (finally) having a good, high speed data connection was overshadowed, when the dialer force opened a Yahoo India landing page made "specially" for Photon users with the usual news and gossip about Bollywood and other things meant to attract clicks. Not just that, the page was decorated with at least three more Photon banners with the same, "eye-hurting" colour scheme.

    Would love to hear your experiences with Photon and other similar services.

    (I'd appreciate it if you could hit the link to read the whole post.)

    Thanks!
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down sinhasinha
    Interesting - its the same frustration one goes thru' when you buy a new car and the dealer sticks his 'ad' in the rear (of the car, obviously!).

    The thing is you cannot do much about it, except for blocking ads/changing the default page. These partnerships actually drives traffic of content portals like Yahoo/AOL (even Google apps).



    I am the founder of Pluggd.in.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down sukhneersukhneer
    I dont mind the ad but i really hate it when it opens that yahoo page in --wait for it-- internet explorer !
    Its easy to avoid the ads and the popups if you connect through the photon icon in your network connections.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down jhash
    Mac client does not have this "feature" yay!!!
  • Vote Up0Vote Down rounakrounak
    @jhash: Does the Mac client work on Lion?
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