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David McLaughlin 01-13-2009 04:40 AM

PPOT spyware?
 
Only on Pelican do I get this spyware warning from my PC-cillin

http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-0812980613569064&dt=1231853857500&lmt=1231853857&f ormat=728x90_as&output=html&correlator=12318538575 00&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.pelicanparts.com%2Fforu mdisplay.php%3Ff%3D31&ad_type=text_image&eid=60830 27&ea=0&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.pelicanparts.com%2 Findex.php%3Fs%3D&frm=0&ga_vid=546520480.122702757 8&ga_sid=1231853097&ga_hid=1939897291&ga_fc=true&f lash=10.0.12.36&u_h=1050&u_w=1680&u_ah=1020&u_aw=1 680&u_cd=32&u_tz=-300&u_his=7&u_java=true&dtd=15

what up with that?

stomachmonkey 01-13-2009 04:55 AM

The board has minimal advertising to help Wayne subsidize the cost.

That's a clicktag or tracking pixel, every time it's shown/clicked it's reported so that Wayne can get paid on the impressions/clickthru.

Benign.

David McLaughlin 01-13-2009 05:02 AM

Ah, I see.

I just started getting the warning the other day. Looks like it stopped for now too.

T77911S 01-13-2009 05:16 AM

thank goodness he does not have the ads some of the others have. i went to one forum and there were ads between every post.
many thanks to wayne for keeping the ads down

anotherblack944 01-13-2009 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T77911S (Post 4414554)
thank goodness he does not have the ads some of the others have. i went to one forum and there were ads between every post.
many thanks to wayne for keeping the ads down

No kidding! I frequent another (really good) car site at night for my winter ride. There were ad's EVERYWHERE and they were seemingly adding more all the time. It got to the point where a thread would take 30 seconds to load.

If you're running Firefox check this out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

It makes a HUGE difference. That site is now useful to me again. From what I've seen it doesn't block Wayne's few ads in any way?

stomachmonkey 01-13-2009 06:30 AM

If Wayne gets paid on clicks vs impressions then it would help him (us) to hit the links.

Don't go crazy as that might throw up a flag if clicks spike, whenever you think about it.


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