Some site updates

Hi guys,

There have been a few changes around here recently, and I wanted to shed some light on what’s going on.

  1. The auto-searcher has been removed. We apologize for the inconvenience.  It was not our decision.  SwagBucks has been obnoxiously persistent in their efforts to remove auto-searchers from prominent websites.  They hired a law firm to harass sites like us.  If we find a way to provide the service to you without incurring harassment from lowlife lawyers, it will be back up!
  2. Annoying disclaimers have been scattered throughout the site. The same lawyers were also harassing us about infringing on SwagBucks’ “trademark rights” by using terms like “SwagBucks” and “SwagCodes”.  Our use of these terms very clearly falls within fair use laws, but we have added disclaimers throughout the site to avoid legal trouble.  The lawyers claim that our visitors confuse our site with SwagBucks.  They don’t think you guys are very smart!  Lawyers aren’t nice people :(.  The big disclaimer that you have to accept to enter the site should only appear once a month, or until you clear your cookies.
  3. A new tool has been added! The toolbar message grabber has been added.  This tool downloads all recent messages from the toolbars across all active sister sites, as well as the SwagBucks toolbar, and displays them to you in a nice, easy-to-read list.  It only displays messages from the current day.  If there have been no posts, it will read “There have been no toolbar posts today.” If you have any questions or concerns regarding this new tool, please feel free to contact us!

That’s about it for now.  As always, thanks for your patience!

— gc

gc

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