adbrite hijacking surfer's browsers + charging credit card 56 times

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Shit... I have adbrite all over my sites.... what should I do take them down??

...sue?? for that (even if they are aware of it)...look at this industry for example...

if that was the case lots of paysites would had been sued on a daily basis...

Now if you are talking about the charges only, you do have a ground (to get it fixed, not to go directly "sue them")

I could be wrong, since I'm not a lawyer, however *if* there are 10 fairly large sponsors who have documented proof *SnagIt allows you to screencap via video your every move on a screen, BTW* , meaning that the spyware installs itself, they click a link to a sponsor and instead of going to fabuloussexsitea.com it goes to theirfabuloussexsiteb.com - they can send a C&D to stop those practices and if they continue I do believe they have grounds to sue in a class action lawsuit for unfair business practices and for hijacking their business & if they can't do it on those grounds, I'm sure they can find members who tried to signup to fabuloussexsitea.com and got redirected and charged by theirfabuloussexsiteb.com.

Actually just quoting something from someone who worked as an expert in similar lawsuits against Gator:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/ads/

The actual term for the sponsors could possibly be:
"Alleging false advertising, unfair competition, trade libel, and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage"

*But I'm not a lawyer and everyone should always seek legal counsel*

Also, just to clarify, not saying that's what 'they' are doing - but in the case of whomever *is*.

Guys, I've been using Adbrite on our network of sites for months now and I've never seen anything like this. Further, our fans are EXTREMELY vocal when anything fucks up. Haven't heard squat. I'd bet this is more a case of what Lars mentioned. Spyware targeting adbrite's code. We had something similar a few years back where spyware was targeting ConsumptionJunction.com. Anyone infected that visited our site got a pop-up advert everytime they clicked one of our navigation links. We got blamed for it by our fans and we weren't even doing it.

Either way, I've got a long relationship with these guys and I doubt very seriously that they're doing this. I've emailed my rep over there and the CEO / Founder of the company. I'd expect an official response as soon as they get their GFY accounts approved. I also offered to post for them until that happens.

Bottom line, we've made a grip of money with these guys and never had any problems. I highly recommend using them.

Not that I wanted to bump this thread to the top, but I saw it and thought I'd respond.

AdBrite doesn't do any type of browser hijacking. We also don't do popups, direct links (SEO spam), or anything else sketchy. In fact, we didn't even set cookies until recently, when we couldn't figure out any other way to do conversion tracking (code that shows advertisers which of their ads are converting into actual sales).

Most likely your site is having a problem with our Interstitial/Intermission code. Interstitials are full-screen ads with a big "Skip this ad" link on the upper-right.

We have heard on occasion of these ads sometimes performing weirdly on sites with lots of other JavaScript/CSS/DHTML stuff going on. If that is the case, you can go into your AdBrite account and turn off Interstitials. Also it would be helpful if you could send us your URL, so we can debug. We'll send you a free tshirt or something for your troubles. Consider it hush money.

Sorry for any inconvenience. Everyone should be aware that Interstitials are (and always have been) by default OFF for all publishers. If a publisher is interested in these types of ads for his site (starts at $5 cpm! okay there's my plug), he must manually turn this option on himself.

Thanks for reading,
pud
www.adbrite.com

are u the same pud that owns fuckedcompany.com?

if so thats cool

yes. thanks!

were you using the interstitial ads? as the person from adbrite mentioned above, there have been some issues where the URL being shown in the intermission ad is breaking out of the iframe and the surfer is no longer able to click on the 'continue to xxx page' because the frame is busted and the URL being loaded is now 100% full screen. you can't hit the 'back' button because in effect, the URL is loaded like a console so there is no page to go back to...

i've bought some adbrite traffic via this method and that complaint got back to me from some advertisers...it has something to do with competing javascripts from the adbrite code and the pages being loaded.

can i have some money?

I have tried many times to contact Adbrite via their contact page and e-mails and I even stopped by and talked to one of their guys at their booth in NYC. Not even one e-mail or phone call back...

DH

It cant be,Armenain and Turkish people hate each other,it cant be their venture !

Still dosen't explain why his credit card was charged 56 times.

Wow that really sucks

wow
i just started using adbrite
had some questions for my account rep and his emails keep bouncing
makes me wonder what exactly is going on

Adbrite support sucks but Ive been using them in various places for 2 years and not a single problem. YMMV

I agree with CJ. Never had problems either.

Probably spyware crap hijacking adbrites code.

If this is true and it gets out it will be harder for Adbrite for recruit

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Date: 2006-05-01, 9:18AM PDT


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Bingo. I noticed that pud neatly sidestepped that rather serious issue.

lars already explained it to you fucking tards. i can't for the life of me imagine how you fucktards can be so naive and ignorant to think that a company of that size is going to try to make money like this - when any retarded 3rd grader could tell you that it would destroy the company in minutes.

You don't say ?

He sure seems to know what he is talking about.

I wonder why?

LOL you mean like AFF making money this way ?

can anyone teach me how to charge a card 56 times...k thanks...lol


jk

You think visa would be on to them after the 52'nd time

will, i've got some info you might like to get ahold of re zango.. hit me up on icq, i just tried to add you 254342256

thats not even possible