Thursday, 15. January 2004

Topic: SPAM - on January 15, 2004 at 11:49:00 PM CET

An increasing number of news websites are now engaged in the latest form of annoying commercial messages: screen spam.

You're on a news website reading an article when, suddenly, an invisible hand starts scratching words in red ink across your screen. What's this? You've just been targeted with screen spam, the latest and most aggressive advertising tactic yet deployed by unscrupulous Internet marketers, designed to do nothing other than interrupt your visit and cajole you into buying something.

¬> screenspam.org

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