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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."
Even while you're viewing this very page, there are icons for Twitter, Facebook, and Google which must be loaded from their site
Actually, those images are loaded from http://a.fsdn.com/sd/commentshareicons.png.
Tinfoil hat fail.
Yes, most of them don't care. I don't care either.
which is totally what she said