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Unwanted Popups Boosting Web Traffic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stealing-eyeballs dept.

Most of us have experienced popups used for advertising. Now, some adware companies and advertiser networks are using popups (mostly from programs that users did not want installed) to directly boost traffic numbers for their customer Web sites. Net rating and measurement companies try to detect and discount such inflated traffic numbers, with mixed success.

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  1. Unwanted what-now? by djh101010 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are these "popups" of what you speak, please? /firefox

  2. Warning! by Clever7Devil · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your stock values may be infected with SPYWARE!

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    "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
  3. Online advertising is out of control! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just went to the Vatican website, and I got a Pope-up!!!