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Gator Examined

Posted by michael on from the looking-a-gift-gator-in-the-mouth dept.

Ben Perry writes "News.com.com has a story about a Harvard researcher's study on how Gator operates. The report 'provides some data as to how much advertising Gator is showing and to whom it is targeted' and focuses on where Gator replaces a site's ads with Gator's ads. Gator is facing several lawsuits because of this technique."

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  1. Opera and Mozilla by autof0zz · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Jezz, I can't belive /.'ers still use MSIE.. my browsing habits are Opera (primary browser), mozilla (second) and only on worst case websites (which happens say once in 2-3 months) IE as a backup. opera has a cool feature where you can hit Alt-D and delete all info (cache, cookies etc etc), so when I'm done browsing through hotmail all I do is alt-d-enter and go to other websites and theres no way in hell they can follow a cookie trial and send me spam... HA HA! I beat the system!!

  2. Re:Great summary! WTF is Gator? by ArmorFiend · · Score: 0, Redundant

    God damn, it doesn't even work with linux. No wonder nobody's heard of it.