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From: RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject: Re: Advertisers scramble as ?non-human traffic' eats up online budgets
Date: 9 Nov 2014 16:42:20 GMT
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>    "They're trying to make decisions about where best to spend the
>    money, and the illegitimate traffic is screwing up some of the
>    metrics," said Chris Williams, president of the Interactive
>    Advertising Bureau of Canada.
>

I will graciously consider this the 'pro' version of trolling!  There's
a Calvin & Hobbes comic where the "Chewing" magazine Calvin is reading
comes with a poll, and he's filled it in with false info, including
"garlic" as favorite flavor.  "My," says Hobbes, "we can expect some
strange advertisements coming up, then."