The SiteAdvisor Spam Quiz

I'm a sucker for a good quiz; apparently I'm also a sucker for good spam.

I took the McAfee SiteAdvisor Spam Quiz, which asks you to differentiate between a Web site that spams and a Web site that respects your privacy, in eight different Web site categories (such as games, e-cards, dating, jokes). You have screenshots and copies of the sites' privacy policies to help you make your decision.



In six out of the eight questions, I correctly guessed the site that spams after scanning copious amounts of privacy-policy text, but to be honest, I couldn't always differentiate between language that allowed spam from the language that didn't. Plus, SiteAdvisor reported that it received 489 e-mails in one week after entering an e-mail address on Winhundred.com, a site whose privacy policy actually displays the TrustE privacy logo.

No wonder I’m so paranoid.