unauthorized links on posts

[WPN]

Someone appears to be attaching links to specific words in my last post. Is this normal on this site, or is someone playing games here? This IS NOT appreciated!
:suspiciou

 

[dani_17]

Its an new kind of advertising. Some keywords will be transformed to links. Instead of putting a banner telling you to buy cheap rubbish ink at half prise, the advertising company that "works" with techspot will autoinsert a link the the " ink " word if you post a message.. for example.

Obviously nobody clicks that kind of stuff unless they made a mistake.

 

[WPN]

Thanks

Thanks...just haven't seen this happen before on other sites...seems odd.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

If you use the likes of Opera or Avant, you can set them to suppress ads and/or banners. My Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro V2 also suppresses flash-ads (only firewall that can do that!).
Luckily I don't get these "keyword" ads anymore that WPN talks about.

 

[NoisySilence]

That "annoyance" as you call it generates revenues for TechSpot. Your tip would be as helpfull as not loading banners on top of the pages.

 

[MrGaribaldi]

From what I know we don't use any of the text-ads that you've experience (I could be wrong), but it's instead due to some ad-ware you've downloaded...

Use Ad-Aware to see if you've got anything...

 

[Didou]

It's not Adware or Spyware MrG, it's another form of advertising that Julio enabled on the forums.

There was a discussion on this but I can't seem to find it anymore.:suspiciou

 

[dani_17]

Its good to have generate revenue for techspot. I sometimes click the banners and so on, use the pricegrabber... etc. But those text links really don't get my attention.

 

[WPN]

Ok, I got the answer I was seeking. I was just wondering why certain words were being highlighted on my query when it wasn't me who initiated them. I have not seen this sort of advertising previously. Definitely more user friendly than banners and pop-ups.

 

[poertner_1274]

They only appear in IE, and they only recognize and make a link into some of the more popular keywords. Like Computer, AMD, internet, etc.
It is just a more subliminal way of advertising, as opposed to banners and such.
But they do help keep TechSpot going, so if you aren't too busy every once in a while click on some of the ads, or words.
Hope this is what you were looking for.

 

[MrGaribaldi]

Well, at least I put in a disclaimer

And if they only work in IE, that explains why I haven't noticed them...
To paraphrase Londo Mollari "So this is IE. Fascinating... Never touch the stuff myself"