Re: [cobalt-users] Stop eZula from stealing bandwidth

["Jamie Martino" <webmaster1@xxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone figured out how to stop eZula TOPtext ,
> a new online advertising technology called ContextPro
> developed by EZula Inc. of San Francisco. The
> software program highlights and hyperlinks keys words
> on your web pages on your site and sends your vistors off to a paid
> adverting link.

Well, unfortunately, it looks like we can't stop it..  It simply monitors
the users incoming data stream and altering that so it's displayed
differently in the browser..  Or something similar, but it's all client side
though, it doesn't steal any of your bandwidth..  It'll just divert users
away from your site when they click on a highlighted word..  Doing some more
research into it, the article mentions something about one person contacting
the company to get his site immune from it..  So it'll probably be something
that we'll have to pay for.. Damn advertisers, what is spam, pop-ups,
pop-unders, small-medium-big banners not enough anymore?  The internet is
starting to become more annoying than interesting or useful...

-Jamie-
http://w-c.net
WebConnection.Net, Inc.