As more people learn about the tactics of NebuAd, more groups come out against them and they are organizing. ClickZ is reporting that six advocacy groups have formed a loose coalition to fight NebuAd. The groups so far are: Electronic Privacy…

It’s taken me a few days to get to this one, but I read the blog of New York Law School Associate Professor James Grimmelmann where he analyzes the NebuAd controversy. In his analysis, he comes up with a fascinating point…

Digging Deep into to the Summit & When the Sleeper Wakes

I have spent the last few days, off the grid, recuperating from the “controversial” Affiliate Summit” in Las Vegas. Ironically, I found no controversy over the issues. Overall I…

Just finished reading a couple stories from Wired.com, one was called Desperate Botnet Battlers Call for an Internet Driver’s License that summed up the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Counter e-Crime Operations Summit and some of the things they were talking about to…

I remember when I first go into affiliate marketing and discovered the old CJ forums that blew up and grew into Abestweb, and then when adware and spyware started overwriting affiliate cookies like there was no tomorrow, we tried and…

Yes, I’m having fun with acronyms and abbreviations. I have to do something to counter the anger at the poor reporting from AP on the Fair Isaac report on click fraud. Gasp! They just found out that 15% of clicks are…

Adware and malware are not just for hijacking sales anymore, it can help you sell a web property as well. Not directly, of course, but in traffic statistics and the number of unique visitors your website gets. It’s still all…

I do plan to get back to my philosophical postings, but when I saw this report forwarded by Kellie Stevens today I could only shake my head.

Bittersweet, really…since most of Zango usage, and this is no big secret, comes from arbitraged…

Microsoft IE Security MVP, Sandi Hardmeier, pinged me earlier this weekend over yet another problematic advertisement in a big network. She blogs again on the elusive “Winfixer”, or you can pick a name among many, for this deceptive software scam.…