How about dispensing some education here?
You knew about this stuff before I was born Dom. I will be as brief as possible.
Methodology by spyware detective ben edelman
I installed eXact Advertising software on a dedicated computer in my lab. Using a network monitor (“packet sniffer”), I watched eXact’s transmissions over my Internet connection.
I observed that eXact retrieves a set of text files that include URLs to advertisements and trigger conditions (URL fragments and keywords). When a user requests a web page that includes one or more of these triggers in its URL, eXact may show a matching URL from its advertisement listing. The lines below show a section of the configuration file at issue. Note ad number (yellow highlighting), ad URL (green), and trigger conditions (red) referencing ad number (purple). Via the targeting instructions highlighted below, eXact shows a Chase credit card ad when users visit fool.com or getapproved.com, two other sites offering credit services.
[ad_data]
…
+,9856,http://oas-central.realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_sx.ads/www.ap.com/chasegasfinance600/%rand%@x11, 1078808400,1117602000,4,1,10,14752828,49589,400,600::1,0,0,0,BullsEye Network Offer,0,0,0,BullsEye Network Offer,0
…[match_rule]
…
+,623868,http://www.fool.com,100,1,9856
+,623869,getapproved.com,100,1,9856
I wrote software to iterate through eXact’s configuration file, making a thumbnail of each ad as well as reporting the trigger conditions associated with each ad. For ads reached via redirects, I also attempted to retrieve and archive all intermediary URLs. Although these methods obtain most eXact ads, these methods omit certain ads that share “rotating” triggers, wherein eXact web server code randomizes between multiple ads shown under identical conditions.
All analysis is based on data collected in during the first week of March 2005.
Joey Blurb..
Don’t need to be an expert an expert Dom. Just need to know one like The Spyware Detective Ben Edelman who I found via a post of yours on WOL.
I try not to be an idiot at times, so I read on. Edelman wrote “Some companies intentionally hire eXact to promote their products. But other companies are promoted by eXact without specifically requesting any relationship with eXact. Through so-called “affiliate programs,” eXact receives commissions from hundreds of online merchants, often without those merchants understanding what eXact is doing and without those merchants specifically consenting to eXact’s methods.“
So utopia Joe contacts said firms about whether they know. (you can believe all you read by other biased individuals who know not what i do) 1 reply – 32red. Ed Ware dropped the media firm that put 32 on the adware citcuit.
I am no teacher Dom. You showed me where, I learned and am the only idiot with a site that won’t abide the firms like betfair that use spyware and then gets told to not dilly dally about mentioning names.