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Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale
mask.of.sanity writes "If you can't create valuable content to attract users to your site, Russian cyber criminals will sell them to you. A web store has been discovered that sells hacked traffic that has been redirected from legitimate sites. Sellers inject hidden iframes into popular web sites and redirect the traffic to a nominated domain. Buyers purchase the traffic from the store to direct to their sites and the sellers get paid."
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You only "send your traffic" to facebook, if you choose to click on the link to Facebook.
Aaaaand, congratulations! You don't know how the Web works.
Whenever you see the "Like" facebook button, you browser has made several HTTP request to facebook and run facebook hosted scripts on your page. And if you're logged in to facebook on that computer, facebook has recorded the fact that YOU went to that page.
All of that without clicking on the button, courtesy of the website owner.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
You only "send your traffic" to facebook, if you choose to click on the link to Facebook.
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Wrong. Many sites share information on their visitors to 3rd parties, this allows said 3rd parties to track and profile you. You do not have to click a link, it happens in the background.
Use this to find out who the main players are: http://www.ghostery.com/
Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
And obviously ad-block plus, NoScript at al...
Facebook specific:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-blocker/?src=userprofile