| Mystery links: New Web advertising tool gets results, draws criticism - San Francisco Chronicle: mentions concerns about the ethics of covert advertising, and commercial firms outraged by links to competitors' sites.
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| Slashdot: Don't Eat the Yellow Links - Web owners upset by changed content; describes an "opt-out" procedure.
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| Whirly Wiry Web: Fighting Ezula - Discussion of web design to detect and defeat contextual advertising, including recognizing the HotText and TopText plugins.
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| You got the yellow linking Virus? - Gives information on how to remove/unistall TopText, and links to other more detailed resources.
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| eZula and Surf+ Script Killer - Provides a script killer for the eZula software. Also works on Surf+.
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| WebHostingTalk Forums: KaZaa is Hijacking Traffic! - Webmasters and surfers, mostly disapproving of the embedded advertising links.
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| PetitionOnline: eZula - Petition protesting insertion of advertising links on web pages.
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| Advanced HTML For Beginners: Yellow links can destroy your day and your income - Forum thread on the eZula "scumware" and possible responses.
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| Applelinks: Another New Technology to Deep-Six - Editorial suggesting "loud, pointed, organized protests" against this attempt to "take over your web pages."
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| PCWorld: Latest Online Ad Gimmick: Hyperlinks - "Advertisers try aggressive (and annoying) hyperlink technology to make the Web pay."
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| ReveNews: CJ Profits from Ezula's Hijacked Links - Article on Commission Junction's apparent blessing of Ezula's links, followed by a lively discussion.
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| Scumware - Resources for webmasters facing traffic-stealing programs including eZula's TopText, Surf+ and Gator.
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| ThiefWare.com - Information and resources primarily for webmasters who wish to fight unethical contextual advertising.
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| Unwanted Links - Raising consumer awareness about consumer privacy and the problems of spyware and adware programs.
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| Planet Doom: The Yellow-Link Virus - Information for webmasters and surfers about the eZula TopText browser plugin and a similar program called Surf+.
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| Foistware - Information to help users and webmasters identify when Top Text is installed.
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| Ethics in Advertising - Editorial asking "How far should advertising go?" Examines eZula's browser plug in as a specific example of unethical advertising.
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| TrafficG Yellow and Green Link Killer - Provides script to disable Top Text and Surf+. Documents source code alterations made by these programs.
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| COTSE: You may have heard of Microsoft Smart Tags, but have you seen Ezula and Surf+? - A webmaster's editorial accusing TopText and Intelsoft International's Surf+ of theft, false advertising, and deceptive self-promotion.
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| Associate Programs Newsletter: How to stop Scumware from defacing your website - Explains how Top Text and similar programs can negatively affect income streams, particularly for sites that use affilate programs.
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| Salon.com: The parasite economy - Examines the spread of both "spyware" and programs that add commercial links to websites. KaZaa's distribution of eZula is heavily featured.
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| StopScum - Resources, news and forums for the fight against contextual advertising.
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| Scumware Stealing Your Traffic and Revenue - Portal News article about the fight against unauthorized ad link insertion.
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| geek/talk Forums at GeekVillage - Discussion about the eZula TopText defacement in the context of copyright violation.
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| San Diego Daily Transcript: 'Poachware' Routes Computer Users To Alternate Web Sites - Article about anti-competitive involuntary hyperlinks being placed by Top Text (aka ContextPro).
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| SgtSearch.com Blacklisted Advertisers - Provides coding web masters can add to their pages to prevent Top Text inserted links.
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| c|net Tech News: Chorus of Gator critics grows - Article on Interactive Advertising Bureau's possible regulatory complaint over Gator's ad insertion. Also discusses Top Text and the effort against it.
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| Search Engine Watch: Forget Smart Tags; TopText Is Doing What You Feared - Editorial decrying stealth download tactics, copyright and other legal violations.
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| c|net Tech News: Peer-to-peer exchanges court advertisers - Article describing the financial arrangements, briefly mentioning the controversy.
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