New AVG is messing with traffic stats

HappySpanker · 2008-06-16, 10:58 AM

AVG is trying to backpedal as fast as they can. Really one of the more memorable and ignorant 'features' to include. What they also did not mention is that if Google gives you 10 hits - thats actually over 50 URLs on the one results page. You can imagine the 'search' footprint left for the user, and only guess what sort of massive waste of traffic is generated from hitting something like The Hun's link page... ahem....

Imagine the foot prints you would leave from reading a CNN story about known terrorists or kid porn web sites - which happened to include links to them in the story... By the end of the day your ISP's logs would offer a colorful set of activity for you -- that you were competely unaware of.

I'd be getting killing AVG deader than Nixon.

2008-06-16, 10:58 AM	#1
HappySpanker WHO IS FONZY!?! Don't they teach you anything at school? Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 47	AVG is trying to backpedal as fast as they can. Really one of the more memorable and ignorant 'features' to include. What they also did not mention is that if Google gives you 10 hits - thats actually over 50 URLs on the one results page. You can imagine the 'search' footprint left for the user, and only guess what sort of massive waste of traffic is generated from hitting something like The Hun's link page... ahem.... Imagine the foot prints you would leave from reading a CNN story about known terrorists or kid porn web sites - which happened to include links to them in the story... By the end of the day your ISP's logs would offer a colorful set of activity for you -- that you were competely unaware of. I'd be getting killing AVG deader than Nixon.