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Originally Posted by Jace
I mean, if I am surfing around on a site and typed something in not realizing that it was in a google adsense box, then hit enter....I would not be upset and feel like I was ripped off, I would just wonder what happened and hit "back"....hardly a scam
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And I fully believe you would not use it in a scammy way but if you think of what COULD be done with it, what kind of pages you could send the user to without them realizing it, it could be used in very nasty ways. I would think that the autoblog guys never intended their code to be used as a ripoff.
This methodology could be used for good or evil (for lack of any better words at the moment).
It is the way of the world I guess. ActiveX was invented to give a more fluid, pleasurable experience for the user. It allows a developer to access more features and possibillities but it also allows the scammers to hijack the computer, load spyware, etc. I can use my car to go down to the thrift store and drop off a contribution or I can use the same car to go down to the thrift store and rob it. I really don't think most of what is used in a nasty way was originally intended to be nasty and this autoblog feature is probably the same sort of thing.