False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media

False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media

Benjamin Edelman

Yahoo's Right Media ad marketplace features widespread ads exactly designed to deceive. I present ten examples of these deceptive ads, and I critique their unwelcome characteristics. To estimate the prevalence of deceptive tactics, I examine Right Media's own analysis ad characteristics -- finding that by Right Media's own admission, deceptive ads total 35% or more of Right Media's advertising inventory.

http://www.benedelman.org/rightmedia-deception

Also interesting:

False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads

http://www.benedelman.org/ppc-scams

Who is Benjamin Edelman?

http://www.benedelman.org/bio

Yahoo has ad's? :lol: Haven't seen them in how many years now, lets see it seems like forever. ;)

yeah i never see ads on the net.........:)

I just got hit

t2636_adverts.jpg

Now to figure out how to block the ba*turds! :angry:

I remember there was a comprehensive list of Yahoo sites on hpHosts forum but it has gone.

i have opened this thread to let know more about ads at yahoo right media because i have thing that this forum going to display such ads... but when i have finsih read a thread starter post... its make me laugh lol

Anybody know what kiti kutu is trying to say?

I'm waiting for it to happen again as I was about to reply in the Cookie Viewer topic and was also at the Nirsoft site in an other tab:

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=19840

Now in my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 richmedia.com

127.0.0.1 www.richmedia.com

Perhaps kiti is having Yahoo display ads at the top of the forum? (just a guess)

I just got hit

It is a Flash ad at the bottom of the home page of Nirsoft that is causing me grief.

There are so many neat utilities on that site and I never had a problem before but it seems that the latest Flash update permits these popups so I have installed TurnFlash to disable Flash quickly:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/tflash2.html

i have opened this thread to let know more about ads at yahoo right media because i have thing that this forum going to display such ads... but when i have finsih read a thread starter post... its make me laugh lol

<Possible Translation> I have opened this thread to let you know more about the ads at Yahoo Right Media, because I have a feeling that this forum is going to display such ads. When I have finished reading a threads starter post. It will make me laugh haha </Possible Translation>

I get the haha part.

Now in my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 richmedia.com

127.0.0.1 www.richmedia.com

Mine too. Thank you for posting the blockers! ;)