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Blocking Ads and Stealing Commissions With FireFox
By Azam Corry in Affiliate Marketing , Internet Advertising [6] CommentsAfter Linda Buquet picked up on my previous post, Webmasters, Could Firefox Be Bad For Your Health? and put it out for discussion on her 5 Star Affiliate Programs blog and the WebProWorld forums, I decided to write a follow-up in an attempt to address some of the issues raised in more detail.
As I mentioned on WebProWorld, Firefox is already used by somewhere between 10 and 14% of all surfers.
That’s a LOT of people.
It’s true that only a percentage of them will make use of plugins at all, but nevertheless, with Google promoting Firefox and paying Adsense publishers for every download, their number can be expected to increase rapidly. This, and the wide range of scripts makes Firefox a potentially bigger problem than Norton’s ad blocking software.
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