Re: Ben Edelman: The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection -- and Yahoo!'s Role Revisited

[sprite <sprite () ntsource com>]

How about a concerted campaign for LARGE Boxes for EULA viewing?
This two-words-per-line-type box stuff just has to be stoppped.

Any suggestions?


sprite


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Ben Edelman is The Man (tm). ;-)
>
> [snip]
>
> In August I reported a startling number of notorious spyware programs receiving payments, directly or indirectly, 
> from Yahoo!'s pay-per-click (PPC) (Overture) search system. Yahoo pays numerous other companies to show these ads via 
> syndication relationships.
>
> So when a spyware vendor can't find advertisers to buy its ad inventory directly, the spyware vendor can show Yahoo 
> ads instead. Every time a user clicks on such an ad, the advertiser must pay Yahoo. Then Yahoo pays a revenue share 
> to the spyware vendor that showed the ad. My August article documented relationships between Yahoo and 180solutions, 
> Claria, Direct Revenue, eXact Advertising, IBIS, and SideFind.
>
> My August article covered "just a few of the ... examples I have observed and recorded." Since then, my Yahoo-spyware 
> collection has grown dramatically. I now have many dozens of different examples of Yahoo pay-per-click ads shown 
> within spyware.
>
> [snip]
>
> Much, much more:
> http://www.benedelman.org/news/040406-1.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
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