Google - your source for With his ill-fated defense of Google's multi-million dollar Yahoo! handshake, chief legal officer David Drummond told Congress the search engine tie-up would rejuvenate the Yahoo! web with "better, more interesting ads." It's a common Google refrain. If you believe the party line, Mountain View's top secret advertising money …
Actually, maybe you SHOULD click them. If you don't click them, Google doesn't get paid, but they don't lose anything either, so they still don't have an incentive to block scams. But every time you do click one the scammer has to pay Google. Of course they're fine with that, if you buy their "free" product. But if you know it's a scam, they're out money. Presumably if a enough people did this it would drive up the cost-per-victim to the point where it was no longer profitable.
You forgot "Track Me Not" for screwing their stats and AdBlock for general de-crapifying.
Pages load so much faster without all the crappy pop-ups and flash crap. If the ads were not so intrusive and bandwidth hungry then I might have been more inclined to leave them there. As it was, they destroyed my browsing experience so I either abandoned sites or had to block them all.
Email piracy@adobe.com and tell them that is via Adwords from Google that you find the 'suspcious' websites. I find that the sites are normally gone within a day.
What was I doing - trying to find a cheap copy of Adobe Premiere Elements 7 and kept getting all these obvious fake sites. If I wanted a pirated copy I would use BitTorrent or something but I like manuals made of paper.
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