Comments on: The two faces of Privila http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/ Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:43:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steven http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/comment-page-1/#comment-28490 Steven Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:40:08 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-or-privila/#comment-28490 why should google sue them, for what, putting up ads on webpages? nobody is forced to click on those ads... privila is nothing against the big spammers. i mean at least they have _real_ content not just generated trash in their sites. take all those spammers and scammers and whatnot together, 300 domains is nothing... there are people ordering 300 domains on a single day and spam the hell out of it. i really think you blow up the whole thing a bit to much. yes, they have ads on their page but look at big pages like zdnet, cnet, myspace and even facebook applications have more ads on one single page then those privila sites. keep it calm buddy. you make a big thing out of something thats not really big... 300 content sites with ads on it... wow... *yawn and even the trick to hide the content if the user agent is google... i mean that could have other reasons too because if they want to scam google why dont they do the same with MSN or Yahoo? think about that. why should google sue them, for what, putting up ads on webpages? nobody is forced to click on those ads…
privila is nothing against the big spammers. i mean at least they have _real_ content not just generated trash in their sites. take all those spammers and scammers and whatnot together, 300 domains is nothing… there are people ordering 300 domains on a single day and spam the hell out of it. i really think you blow up the whole thing a bit to much. yes, they have ads on their page but look at big pages like zdnet, cnet, myspace and even facebook applications have more ads on one single page then those privila sites.

keep it calm buddy. you make a big thing out of something thats not really big… 300 content sites with ads on it… wow… *yawn

and even the trick to hide the content if the user agent is google… i mean that could have other reasons too because if they want to scam google why dont they do the same with MSN or Yahoo? think about that.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/comment-page-1/#comment-28489 Rob Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:01:52 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-or-privila/#comment-28489 El Reg has picked up on this and gives suitable credit: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/google_privila/ El Reg has picked up on this and gives suitable credit:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/google_privila/

]]> By: Ian M Gumby http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/comment-page-1/#comment-28487 Ian M Gumby Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:16:43 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-or-privila/#comment-28487 Its interesting that you didn't dig deeper in to the company. Who exactly is Domain Holdings? They have their own site www.domainholdings.com One has to ask how much this "scam" netted them in google advertising dollars. One also has to ask, will google sue to get their money back? Assuming of course that this scam was targeting Google for ad revenue. In addition, they sold advertisments from their Domain Holdings web site, so were they scamming google or possibly their own customers? Its interesting that you didn’t dig deeper in to the company.
Who exactly is Domain Holdings?
They have their own site http://www.domainholdings.com
One has to ask how much this “scam” netted them in google advertising dollars.

One also has to ask, will google sue to get their money back?
Assuming of course that this scam was targeting Google for ad revenue. In addition, they sold advertisments from their Domain Holdings web site, so were they scamming google or possibly their own customers?

]]> By: Steven J. Murdoch http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/comment-page-1/#comment-28479 Steven J. Murdoch Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:25:38 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-or-privila/#comment-28479 @jim I'm not aware of any direct connection. As far as I know, Privila only produces websites like the ones we have pointed out -- original content, posted with permission of the author. Replicating content from a blog is dubious from a copyright perspective, unlike Privila's activities. Still, both classes of sites feed from the AdWords (and similar) infrastructure, so are related in that sense. @jim

I’m not aware of any direct connection. As far as I know, Privila only produces websites like the ones we have pointed out — original content, posted with permission of the author.

Replicating content from a blog is dubious from a copyright perspective, unlike Privila’s activities. Still, both classes of sites feed from the AdWords (and similar) infrastructure, so are related in that sense.

]]> By: jim http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-of-privila/comment-page-1/#comment-28476 jim Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:41:14 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03/06/the-two-faces-or-privila/#comment-28476 Are these in any way related to the pingback sites that replicate a subset of content from my blog with a link back and a smattering of other links? For example, medtrials [dot] info? Are these in any way related to the pingback sites that replicate a subset of content from my blog with a link back and a smattering of other links? For example, medtrials [dot] info?

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