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Marketing SOBs
This SurferBeware.com
mini-site is dedicated to Bill
Webb's "Dirty Marketing SOBs" expose. Bill
himself has cataloged the unscrupulous acts of Internet
peddlers and the tactics they use. Here is a direct
link to the original
expose.
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Revenge of the
Dirty Marketing SOBs
Surf smarter, not harder...
We thought we had seen the last of the Dirty Marketing
S.O.B.s...
If you're a longtime visitor of the site, you may
remember the original Dirty
Marketing SOBs (DMS) dossier that was published here a while back. The DMS
are responsible for annoying, intrusive, bandwidth-hogging,
deceptive, misleading, dirty, lyin-cheatin-stealin' underhanded methods of
advertising and generally profiteering off the Web at the expense of us surfers.
We thought they'd thrown their worst at us. We were wrong!
The saga continues as I, your loving Guinea pig (Bill Webb) scour the Web to
ferret out, uncover and lay bare the dirtiest of slimy and
moneygrubbing advertising on the Internet. In order to create a definitive resource on what
evils lurk in Web ads, I've been out and about...I'd say the majority of bad ads
are on porn sites and the like; I've been traversing even the raunchiest of the
seedy back-alleys of cyberspace (for research purposes, of course.)
The types of dirty advertising can probably be placed into three main
categories-- Sneaky banners, sneaky scripting (mostly Javascript tricks and
stuff), and deceptive advertising. I'll also devote a small section to
demographic/psychographic tracking of your personal habits, and another to
miscellaneous methods of pushing unwanted advertising and promotions on the
unsuspecting public that are not covered under the Big Three (sneaky banners,
etc.).Categories:
- Sneaky Banners
- Sneaky Scripting
- Deception
- Other Nasties
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