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Unwanted Popups Boosting Web Traffic 118

Posted by kdawson from the stealing-eyeballs dept.
Most of us have experienced popups used for advertising. Now, some adware companies and advertiser networks are using popups (mostly from programs that users did not want installed) to directly boost traffic numbers for their customer Web sites. Net rating and measurement companies try to detect and discount such inflated traffic numbers, with mixed success.
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