Welcome to Unwantedlinks a site dedicated to fighting unethical
advertising and marketing programs. Learn how to protect your
privacy both on and off line and limit your risks of idenity theft.
Are you sick of pop-up ads and spam mail -- this is the place
to fight back. Protect your computer from spyware. Do you own
a web site? Learn how to protect your web site from unethical
competitors who might steal your web traffic by adding contextual
advertising links to it's surface. Find out the latest news and
information on Peer to Peer file sharing programs. Find out how
to contact your US representatives to express your views about
new legislation's to protect your privacy both on and off line.
Due to the rise in
everyone needs to be concerned about any attempts that might be
made to gather personal information about them, this includes
information that businesses might be collecting!
The plain and simple truth is that is big business and very profitable!
The more information a company or business can gather on it's
customers and clients the more profitable it becomes. Since most
consumers use computers on a daily basis in today's global market
place companies, especially advertising and marketing companies,
have turned to the internet to gather data on what consumers are
interested in.
On the surface, this does not sound like such a terrible thing
and when told many consumers express statements that it really
doesn't matter to them that advertisers might monitor what sites
they visit and accept at face value that companies are simply
gathering general demographics.
Unfortunately, what many consumers on the internet don't seem
to know or understand is that advertisers and marketing companies
are going to greater and greater lengths to gather much more in
depth and detailed of information about what consumers are doing
and buying on line and much of the information that is gathered
is shared or sold to other busiensses.
We have lot's of important information on this site to protect
consumers and their privacy. For more in depth information about
Identity theft and businesses gathering consumer information please
read our information on How to minimize
the risks of Identity theft and How
safe is your personal data?
As WebMasters we all work hard to build our
web site rankings in search engines. We spend large amounts
of money on Pay Per Click Ads to lead visitors
to our web sites. We hire experts to provide us with the latest
web security measures to protect our sites from hackers. It is
frightening to learn that all our efforts to attract visitors
to our sites through search engines and PPC might all be for nothing
because unethical marketing companies and
businesses might be targeting our key words and phrases with the
use of contextual ads that might attack our web sites and steal
visitors directly off our web sites through our own ad text.
If you don't know what
is, this is the place to find information about it. We offer a
lots of vital information that web masters need to know to protect
their web sites and we offer web masters free scripts to help
protect their web sites from not only unwanted attacks of contextual
ads but also scripts to protect web sites from spam bots which
might harvest email addresses.
If you own a business web site or develop web sites for others
we have up to date information about these new programs and information
which can help you protect your sites from malicious
"traffic stealing" and banner ad
switching as well as programs which also
can steal your affiliate earnings.
These new types of
effect you since they use spyware and adware to do their dirty
work by using stealth installation and are being distributed though
"on-the-fly" downloads to web surfers. Spyware not only
effects consumers it also effects US because it is bundled for
mass distribution to unsuspecting consumers across the internet
through web sites and software programs. The combined effect of
this type of mass distribution has impacted well over 500 million
computer users and have the ability to alter and change the viewable
web content of our web sites to misdirect our potential customers
away from our sites and send them directly to our competitors!
We have put this section together to alert and
educate web masters and web site owners to these new so that they can protect their web sites
from these new and highly unethical new technologies.
We are currently trying to raise support to develop a class action
lawsuit against the promoters and advertisers that use these programs
that misdirect and steal our web traffic. We have additional information
regarding the legal issues of Fair Trade and Advertising regulations
in our Legal Section.
No membership is required, and we do not sell anything. Our
site has been developed to as a service to webmasters provide
up to date information about a number of new and highly unethical
advertising and marketing programs that have recently been
been developed which are impacting on web sites across the Internet.
We hope that you will take the time to explore the important information
provided on this site!
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What
is Spyware and Adware
Detailed Information about Spyware
How
to Safely Remove Spyware
How to Manually Remove Spyware
Harrassed
by Porn Ads? Find out how to stop your computer from displaying
unwanted porn sites?
The
Facts About Pop-Ups Ads - Find out where they come from and how
to stop them
20
Top Web Scams to watch out for
How
to Protect Your Self from Identity Theft
How
to Protect Your Personal Information - Find out how businesses
buy and sell your information
How
to Fight Spammers
Spam
Fighters Toolkit
How and
Where to Report Spam
About
Peer to Peer FileSharing programs - The Problems with P2P File
Sharing
Concerns
About KaZaa Media
What
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Web
Masters - Alerts about Unethical Ad Programs that can effect your
web business
On
Line Privacy and Web Security Information for Consumers
Detailed Information about Spyware
Programs
How
Spyware Can Affect Your Web Businesses & Profits!
The
Impact of Unwanted Contextual Ads on Your Business
Web
Site Traffic Stealing Programs - The Problems with Contextual
Advertising
How
to Protect Your Web Site from Affliate Earning Theft
Examples
of TopText Contextual Ads
Gator
Ad Swapping
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