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Old 11-04-2013, 04:46 PM  
SilentKnight
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Originally Posted by wehateporn View Post
Surfers instinctively head towards a CAPTCHA while trying to avoid all the ads, I suspect putting a CAPTCHA on an advert would allow it to circumvent the surfer's defense mechanisms, thereby increasing the click-thru numbers, unless everyone starts doing it

Maybe someone's already onto this, but I haven't encountered it myself.

Any GFYers tried it?
Sounds like another deceptive/misleading ploy to rook the surfer into going somewhere they didn't intend to.

I dunno - part of the reason the industry is in the state its in is due to surfer mistrust. This doesn't sound like a way of regaining that trust.
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