This from the "I Find This Hard To Believe" Department... lots of sites last week were
publishing the news that poker newcomer, PKR Poker, is claiming to have 2 million players.
While it is not out of the realm of possibility that PKR has 2 million players, I question anything that site says or does.
Why?
Because I refuse to trust any sites that deal, directly or indirectly, with spyware and adware companies.
If you don't know what I am talking about, it probably means that your computer is thankfully clean of spyware and adware.
If it isn't, then you probably have seen a fair number of PKR Poker ads popping up and generally ruining your viewing experience of this site and others.
That is because PKR, and/or some of its affiliates, are more than happy to deal with the hackers and other scumbags that produce spyware and adware to completely ruin the Internet for everybody else in their quest for a few cents here and there.
I ask you all: Would you trust your money with any site that does business with hackers and spyware companies, potentially putting your personal information at risk?
I wouldn't.
NOTE: ...And before anybody from PKR Poker decides to call me up and complain about this post, I suggest you find yourself a barebones PC without spyware protection and see how long it takes before you suddenly find yourself constantly closing the PKR Poker pop-up ads that continually appear whenever you are browsing Covers or any other gambling site.
I had the misfortune of trying to use a PC at some Internet cafe recently, and I was disgusted to find that browsing Covers was a royal pain due to the spyware pop-ups that kept popping up all of the time. It was frustrating, to say the least.
Oh yeah, I saw a few Bodoglife ads too, so dont think that PKR is the only offender.
Either way, until companies like PKR and Bodog stop paying hackers either directly or indirectly (through affiliate deals), this industry will continue to be viewed as insecure and unsafe.
Thanks, guys! You are ruining it for the rest of us.