What? There are frauds on the Internet??
Why didn't anyone tell me that before I started reading DU?
He agreed to $1 a click?
What an idiot.
Anyone who would pay $1 per click is asking to be ripped off
There is some sort of poetic justice about an auto repair shop getting ripped off...
"Many consumers use anti-spyware software to eliminate cookies -- the mini-files deposited on the hard drives of Web users that are employed by sites to track unique visitors. Now, advertisers are fighting back with new technology. United Virtualities, also in New York City, has developed a backup ID system for cookies set by Web sites and advertising networks. The technology, called the Persistent Identification Element, is tagged to a user's Web browser. It provides advertisers with a unique identification, just like a cookie, and the tags cannot be deleted by any commercially available anti-spyware software today.
"All advertisers, Web sites and networks, use cookies for targeted advertising, but cookies are under attack," said Mookie Tenembaum, founder of United Virtualities. "They are being erased by 40 percent of users, creating serious problems. PIE will give publishers and third-party providers a persistent backup to cookies, effectively rendering them unassailable."
The PIE software is contained in just one line of code, he said.
Tenembaum said that from the advertiser's point of view the erasure of cookies constitutes a threat to an array of server-side applications, not just advertising, but also site registration and traffic counting."
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Can anyone provide info on "PIE" software and how to deal with it?
Folks, follow the link, and see the part about "key words they know have been purchased." Either the columnist made that up, or the search engine company is lying about its policy.
And Koprowski incompetent to cover "telecommunications for UPI Science News" if he doesn't mention bots in that column.
If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!!
IT IS A SCAM; they only want to see you naked.
I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid now.