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Originally Posted by Wildie
would fuzzing of inputting key words like sex medical health lots of em stop the ad`s ?
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If I follow you, it might make them stop profiling a page.
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and would a list of all the web sites that the ad`s want you to goto be handy to add to ones host file, so blacklisting the very sites the ads want you to visit, ok you still get phormed but by blacklisting the ones who paid for the ad would that not hurt the model as well?
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Anything that negatively impacts the clickthrough rate for OIX ads reduces the appeal of OIX to advertisers. Done on a massive scale, Phorm would be left advertising scam gambling and malware sites.
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ok but the advert has to point to some web site they want you to visit has it not?
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Usually this is via redirects through the ad networks servers. Blocking the ad network blocks the clickthroughs, boycotting the advertiser is something else entirely.