Porn And Click Fraud: Perfect Together

from the new-year,-new-scam dept

Online pornographers are often seen pushing the boundaries (sometimes legally, often not) in figuring out new ways to drive revenue. Apparently the latest trick is to combine porn with click fraud. The details aren't entirely clear from the article, but it sounds like some less than scrupulous sites are signing up for pay-per-click affiliate programs, and then modifying the code so that instead of showing an advertisement, it actually shows a pornographic picture -- with the suggestion that clicking through will show you more. Instead, of course, clicking through takes you to some random page of a company that just paid for the click, often making the person go back to see a new "image/ad" to click again.
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    Ben McNelly, 5 Jan 2006 @ 1:22pm

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    I was wondering what was happinging....
    But seriously, its a good bet because how many people are going to chalenge somthing legaly when ultimamtly your going to raise questions or at least eyebrows with being the insightfull fellow who notices that the porn links arn't working. Seems like a good stratagy to me (not advocating it...)and would expect it to get worse. I always figured that porn sites were where a lot of credit card #'s got stollen, because who is going to say, "hey! {insert random horse screwing site}.biz started charging with my card after I bought a subscription!!!"

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      kw, 5 Jan 2006 @ 1:56pm

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      this is NOT news. porn sites have been doing this for years.

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        poop head, 5 Jan 2006 @ 2:22pm

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        you would know, hmm

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          kw, 5 Jan 2006 @ 5:52pm

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          now here is some techdirt news - poop head implied that he is one of only 2-3 people (at most) in the civilized world who does _not_ surf the web with his mouse in one hand and his dick cheney in the other trying to find free porn. or maybe he is one of the 2-3 people in the civilized world who actually pays for porn? hrmmmm

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    focus, 6 Jan 2006 @ 7:39am

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    people this isnt about the porn (poopyhead eh, nice fetish :P) this is about what the porn wants to do...this is why porn sites will never get anywhere.

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