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A recent referrer caught my eye, due to an incoming yahoo search — the desperate Windows user’s query? ".. i do not understand how to delete these unwanted partitions in 98, nothing is working, please help me". #
You have to be kidding me.. before I begin, this post may contain content that might be offensive to advertisers and small children..
Evolutionary theft
So not only is bitacle.org cramming advertising into every spare pixel, they’ve now added ‘digg this’ to their every-evolving quest to squeeze every last cent out of ’stolen’ content.
Now, whilst you might be screaming “but doesn’t that help drive traffic?! what the hell are you on, bro?!” there’s a catch.
It doesn’t digg the owners url.. oh no, that would deprive bitacle income — it appears to digg the sploggers copy. If there is one saving grace, either the javascript is busted, or digg is blocking the incomming dugg’s as they never show up over at digg1.
- .. a quick test appears to prove this, however I am happy to be corrected. (↩)
Does this look at all familiar?
If you thought it was only ever the
uber-popular kids on the block that have
content scraped, without permission and then used to make money without the blog author’s knowledge - you would be wrong.
The art of
splogging is nothing new — spam comments and advertising attempting to pretend it’s […]
