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False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media

Started by YoKenny, Jan 17 2009 10:09 PM

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Posted 17 January 2009 - 10:09 PM

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False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media
Benjamin Edelman

Yahoo's Right Media ad marketplace features widespread ads exactly designed to deceive. I present ten examples of these deceptive ads, and I critique their unwelcome characteristics. To estimate the prevalence of deceptive tactics, I examine Right Media's own analysis ad characteristics -- finding that by Right Media's own admission, deceptive ads total 35% or more of Right Media's advertising inventory.
http://www.benedelma...media-deception

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False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads
http://www.benedelman.org/ppc-scams

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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:15 PM

Yahoo has ad's? :lol: Haven't seen them in how many years now, lets see it seems like forever. ;)
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 02:20 AM

yeah i never see ads on the net.........:)

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 05:53 PM

I just got hit

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Now to figure out how to block the ba*turds! :angry:

I remember there was a comprehensive list of Yahoo sites on hpHosts forum but it has gone.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 06:08 PM

i have opened this thread to let know more about ads at yahoo right media because i have thing that this forum going to display such ads... but when i have finsih read a thread starter post... its make me laugh lol
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 06:37 PM

Anybody know what kiti kutu is trying to say?

I'm waiting for it to happen again as I was about to reply in the Cookie Viewer topic and was also at the Nirsoft site in an other tab:
http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=19840

Now in my HOSTS file:
127.0.0.1 richmedia.com
127.0.0.1 www.richmedia.com
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 06:51 PM

Perhaps kiti is having Yahoo display ads at the top of the forum? (just a guess)
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 07:40 PM

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I just got hit

It is a Flash ad at the bottom of the home page of Nirsoft that is causing me grief.

There are so many neat utilities on that site and I never had a problem before but it seems that the latest Flash update permits these popups so I have installed TurnFlash to disable Flash quickly:
http://www.nirsoft.n...ls/tflash2.html
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Posted 19 January 2009 - 02:09 AM

View Postkiti kutu, on Jan 18 2009, 06:08 PM, said:

i have opened this thread to let know more about ads at yahoo right media because i have thing that this forum going to display such ads... but when i have finsih read a thread starter post... its make me laugh lol

<Possible Translation> I have opened this thread to let you know more about the ads at Yahoo Right Media, because I have a feeling that this forum is going to display such ads. When I have finished reading a threads starter post. It will make me laugh haha </Possible Translation>

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Posted 19 January 2009 - 05:15 PM

I get the haha part.

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Posted 19 January 2009 - 08:22 PM

View PostYoKenny, on Jan 18 2009, 12:37 PM, said:

Now in my HOSTS file:
127.0.0.1 richmedia.com
127.0.0.1 www.richmedia.com
Mine too. Thank you for posting the blockers! ;)
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