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Was my Widget set up by another party as a Homepage Hijack or was my affiliate link Hijacked?
One of my widgets was installed on about:blank which is Homepage Hijackers ref: http://www.aboutblank.com.au/ - Is this for real - should I be concerned or am I misinterpreting. It says domains widget installed on Clearspring.com (which is where I bundle it) and, about:blank?
Perhaps it was to pull out the one affiliate link I had in the Widget, which I have since changed to a tinyurl address. Hoping this helps from future hijacking.
Perhaps it was to pull out the one affiliate link I had in the Widget, which I have since changed to a tinyurl address. Hoping this helps from future hijacking.
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Inappropriate?Hey Val,
"about:blank" is actually special command you can enter in your browser's address bar (without quotes) and an empty webpage is brought up. This feature in modern-day browsers isn't really necessary, but some people prefer their start page to be empty.
Our metrics system works to figure out where the widget was loaded - if you "bundle" it on Clearspring.com you will see in your widget statistics that the widget was viewed on that domain. As for why we tracked "about:blank", we do not support our widgets being integrated with other widget companies such as Clearspring, so its quite possible our metrics system was given invalid domain information.
Hope this helps!
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