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Eircoms webshi*e

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  • 13-04-2008 11:21pm
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    311
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    Occasionally I use eircoms site for various tasks.
    But ,whats really annoying is that more and more ,the links on their pages don't work.
    All I get is a click doubler ,does this mean their site was hacked ?


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,513 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I haven't looked at their site in a long time but back then (and possibly still now) it used session IDs in the URL and made linking to a page more tricky.
    I hope it was hacked. Serve the scum right!


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    311
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    Thanks ,the url's begin with http://clk.tradedoubler.com

    Happens only on certain pages and nearly all important links on these pages.


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    That's an ad server for serving ads to the pages.

    I doubt they are but they could be removing the pages and linking them to ads instead to generate revenue. I don't know why they would do that. I'm sure Google would be none too pleased if they were as regards their placing in search results.

    Most likely, its just some weird error on their part that nobody told them about yet or that they haven't worked out yet.


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    311
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    Cheers ,I've not reported it .

    One thing thats worse than getting older ,is trying to communicate with eircom.


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    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭oneweb


    I hate those links :mad: And they're worse than some because instead of having http://clk.tradedoubler.com?url=http://properlink.com, they use a number.

    Is it only some links, if so which ones? If it's all of them, do you have a custom hosts file or have you set yer browser to block images etc from tradedoubler?

    It is what it's.



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    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    311 wrote: »
    Thanks ,the url's begin with http://clk.tradedoubler.com

    Happens only on certain pages and nearly all important links on these pages.

    Do you happen to be using adblock with Firefox?


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