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Originally Posted by Peter N
I tried apmebf.com and got a redirect to a site owned by Commission Junction.
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I am hoping that AD will also discover this, and learn something.
It is more like 2 redirects if you started with the non-www domain and the browser redirected to the www domain. apmebf.com goes nowhere.
www dot apmebf.com has a meta refresh to cj.com - a page telling me what to do if I have received spam. However, the www domain does also contain some text "You are currently being redirected to an information page about qksrv.net. If your browser does not support redirects, please click here to access the page directly." Odd that, as I was not requesting any domain called qksrv.net - looks like that is the spyware domain
I used the non-www domain in the quote as that was the domain quoted by quantcast. I assume that they are like alexa and count all subdomains when counting hits. It looks like every site hosting the adware tracking script gets its own subdomain of apmebf.com
Anyway, I hope this small digression from the thread shows something of what internet users think of tracking cookies and the length businesses go to to try and keep the tracking going. CJ looks like such a respected business - it provides advertising [affiliate] content to millions of websites. Imagine the database it has and how much it earns by selling the data - it even knows the monetary value and which product the affiliate / advertiser site visitor bought.
Imagine the effect of mission creep between the 2 tracking systems.