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

["Farhan" <amit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isnt that just Microsoft smart tags revisited? 

From:           	"Jamie Martino" <webmaster1@xxxxxxx>
To:             	<cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:        	Re: [cobalt-users] Stop eZula from stealing bandwidth
Organization:   	WebConnection.Net, Inc.
Send reply to:  	cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent:      	Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:34:15 -0400

> > 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.
> 
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