Equipped To Survive Equipped To Survive® Presents
The Survival Forum
Where do you want to go on ETS?

Topic Options
#108686 - 10/15/07 12:01 PM Tylenol coupon
Dragonscript Offline
Newbie

Registered: 12/19/06
Posts: 39
http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subpcccoldmed.inc

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but Tylenol is offering a $5.00 off coupon on any Tylenol, Motrin, Pediacare, Benadryle, Sudafed, St. joseph or Imodium product.

To get the coupon you have to download a small program and have a printer hooked up so that it can print one off for you.
_________________________
Learn to swim.
-Tool

Top
#108689 - 10/15/07 12:24 PM Re: Tylenol coupon [Re: Dragonscript]
MartinFocazio Offline

Pooh-Bah

Registered: 01/21/03
Posts: 2203
Loc: Bucks County PA
This post leads to Coupons.com, which is an advertising company. They require you to install software on your computer which is questionably close to "spyware".

Here's what I found on a site that looked at the Coupons.com software
http://www.benedelman.org/news/082807-1.html

I recently examined software from Coupons.com. At first glance their approach seems quite handy. Who could oppose free coupons? But a deeper look reveals troubling behaviors I can't endorse. This piece summarizes my key concerns:

* Installing with deceptive filenames and registry entries that hinder users' efforts to fully remove Coupons' software.
* Failing to remove all Coupons.com components upon a user's specific request.
* Assigning each user an ID number, and placing this ID onto each printed coupon, without any meaningful disclosure.
* Allowing third-party web sites to retrieve users' ID numbers, in violation of Coupons.com's privacy policy.
* Allowing any person to check whether a given user has printed a given coupon, in violation of Coupons.com's privacy policy.


In addition, I found the following sites with information about deceptive practices of Coupons.Com:
http://probargainhunter.com/2007/09/30/downloadable-coupons-come-with-sneaky-extras/

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/coupon_security

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/coupons

Also, this topic is now "around the campfire" where it's better suited to further discussion.


Top
#108698 - 10/15/07 02:06 PM Re: Tylenol coupon [Re: MartinFocazio]
OutdoorDad Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 09/27/07
Posts: 76
martinfocazio is right.

Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch.
_________________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life... there'd be a shortage of kid's fishing poles.

Top



Moderator:  Alan_Romania, Blast, chaosmagnet, cliff 
June
Su M Tu W Th F Sa
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
Who's Online
3 registered (Herman30, chaosmagnet, clearwater), 373 Guests and 9 Spiders online.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Newest Members
Explorer9, GallenR, Jeebo, NicholasMarshall, Yadav
5368 Registered Users
Newest Posts
Bad review of a great backpack..
by clearwater
What did you do today to prepare?
by Jeanette_Isabelle
06/09/24 07:45 PM
EDC Reduction
by paulr
06/04/24 10:30 AM
Recent Signal Mirror Successes - more wanted
by paulr
06/03/24 08:35 AM
Hoover Stew
by dougwalkabout
05/26/24 03:03 AM
Silver
by Jeanette_Isabelle
05/23/24 06:24 PM
New Madrid Seismic Zone
by Jeanette_Isabelle
05/17/24 03:49 PM
Any shortages where you are?
by adam2
05/16/24 09:49 AM
Newest Images
Tiny knife / wrench
Handmade knives
2"x2" Glass Signal Mirror, Retroreflective Mesh
Trade School Tool Kit
My Pocket Kit
Glossary
Test

WARNING & DISCLAIMER: SELECT AND USE OUTDOORS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND TECHNIQUES AT YOUR OWN RISK. Information posted on this forum is not reviewed for accuracy and may not be reliable, use at your own risk. Please review the full WARNING & DISCLAIMER about information on this site.