Yahoo! 360 - Virtual Porn Ring Target?

Sep 18, 2005 - 9:55 am 2 by
Filed Under Other Yahoo

Before accepting invitations within Yahoo! 360 I try to do my background checking. For some reason, this one slipped through. I received an invite from "CARAMEL_KISSES", her named sparked some investigative work, so I checked our her profile page but it looked fairly clean. So I decided to hit that "accept" invitation button. Then when viewing my home page, where it syndicates all the new items for my connected friends, I saw some porn news feeds coming in. So I immediately removed CARAMEL_KISSES from my friends list.

You won't see those feeds on her profile page, unless you are a connected friend (I assume). I forgot to take screen shots of the feeds, so I have no evidence now. But trust me, the URL of the feeds was from world-se*-news.com (put a * there so a stop filter wouldn't trigger on the ads). I have also reported her to Yahoo! 360, just now. Nice spam tactic, if that was what was intended.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Follow

Search Video Recaps

 
Gvolatility, Bing Generative Search, Reddit Blocks Bing, Sticky Cookies, AI Overview Ads & SearchGPT - YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 26, 2024

Jul 26, 2024 - 10:00 am
Search Video Recaps

Google Volatility, Bing Generative Search, Reddit Blocks Bing, Sticky Cookies, AI Overview Ads & SearchGPT

Jul 26, 2024 - 8:01 am
Google

Google Gemini Adds Related Content & Verification Links

Jul 26, 2024 - 7:51 am
Other Search Engines

SearchGPT - OpenAI's AI Search Tool

Jul 26, 2024 - 7:41 am
Search Engine Optimization

Google's John Mueller: Don't Use LLMs For SEO Advice

Jul 26, 2024 - 7:31 am
Google

Google Search With Related Images Carousel Below Image Box

Jul 26, 2024 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Ideas for "Blogging for Fun and Profit" Presentation?