Companies have three options to track desktop users on the Internet, cookies, Flash cookies and network related activities. All three can be used by third parties to track an Internet user’s movement on the Internet, to record interests and activities. Most tracking companies sell those information to advertisers who in return display relevant advertisement to [...]

Categories: The Web

Alternate data streams (ads) are a feature of Microsoft’s Windows NTFS file system that can be used to add data to existing files, for instance text to a text file that does not become visible if the original file is opened in a text editor. The hidden nature of alternate data streams have made them [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, The Web

Normal Google Adsense users – those that do not have the status of a premium publisher – have always been at a severe disadvantage when customizing Adsense units. One of the major points of criticism over the year was the inability to change the default font mix that Google used to display Adsense units. You [...]

Categories: Adsense, Revenue Sources

I’m currently testing a WordPress plugin that I always wanted to test but never had the opportunity to do it. It’s the Who Sees Ads plugin which allows the administrator to define rules on who is seeing ads on the website and who is not. I figured that regular readers would not click on ads [...]

Categories: ghacks

Internet users have to cope with all kinds of things when they are online. Malware, security vulnerabilities, tracking, phishing, traffic shaping and some, as it seems (thanks Dante for the link), even with Internet Service Providers that inject ads of their own on websites that are visited by their customer. That’s what researchers at the [...]

Categories: Security, The Web