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Distastful Advertising Continues: "Gatoring"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-i-taste-arsenic-in-the-water dept.

iforgotmyfirstlogon sent us a link to an article on CNet about Gatoring, a fabulous new advertising technique where advertising buy key words and pop up windows over competitors. The kicker is that this is a byproduct of a commonly installed activex plugin. And its only gonna get worse.

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  1. Re:Going to say this anyways by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    > This is obviously a flame, and I know I'm going to lose what meager karma points I have with this, but I'm going to say it anyways.

    Those who would sacrifice their freedom of speech for karma deserve neither freedom of speech nor karma.

    To pare a phrase.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade