...makes it clearer the affiliate-payments scam, making these redirected searches look like paid clickthroughs, is central to the Paxfire approach. That's clearly fraudulent, and not equivalent to the Google tracking. (If they were just collecting interest/trsffic/targeting info, then the equivalence I suggested above would apply.)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hija...
...makes it clearer the affiliate-payments scam, making these redirected searches look like paid clickthroughs, is central to the Paxfire approach. That's clearly fraudulent, and not equivalent to the Google tracking. (If they were just collecting interest/trsffic/targeting info, then the equivalence I suggested above would apply.)