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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. Great summary! WTF is Gator by ArmorFiend · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Gator would be .... ?

  2. Re:Ads are easily blocked by genka · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not sure. I googled for "paasword export IE" and found one advise to save a registry key, that ,author thinks, may work. With Gator export is done with 3 mouse clicks.