Spyware Cheating Affiliate Merchants
Researcher Ben Edelman cited a half-dozen examples of affiliate merchants being cheated by spyware, particularly by claiming commissions on organic traffic coming to those merchants. Edelman said that while some spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, the core designs of a couple of examples still behave as they always have: “They still track user behavior, still send browsing to their central servers, and still show pop-up ads — behaviors users rightly disfavor due to serious effects on privacy and productivity.”
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