https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/ClickBait-with-CAPTCHA/m-p/21192#M2596 <P>This is funny. A number of the news &amp; opinion sites I check daily are littered with clickbait adverts along the side. Occasionally I decide to check one out, fully knowing what I am in for. However, recently all of those links now land on a CAPTCHA page instead of the clickbait page:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ad-captcha.png" style="width: 413px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3136iAEDD321B04648CAD/image-dimensions/413x130?v=v2" width="413" height="130" role="button" title="ad-captcha.png" alt="ad-captcha.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Presumably, the advertising aggregator services have implemented this human-proof step to prevent robots from generating thousands of clicks and costing them pay-per-view fees back to the original advertisers.</P><P>Of course, the unintended consequence here is that I have no interest in playing their silly reindeer games, and just close the CAPTCHA page instead of proceeding to the clickbait site.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Are others seeing this new phenomenon, where general web users are placed in the middle between two sets of pseudo-scammers?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:37:34 GMT CraginS 2019-04-14T17:37:34Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/ClickBait-with-CAPTCHA/m-p/21192#M2596 <P>This is funny. A number of the news &amp; opinion sites I check daily are littered with clickbait adverts along the side. Occasionally I decide to check one out, fully knowing what I am in for. However, recently all of those links now land on a CAPTCHA page instead of the clickbait page:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ad-captcha.png" style="width: 413px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3136iAEDD321B04648CAD/image-dimensions/413x130?v=v2" width="413" height="130" role="button" title="ad-captcha.png" alt="ad-captcha.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Presumably, the advertising aggregator services have implemented this human-proof step to prevent robots from generating thousands of clicks and costing them pay-per-view fees back to the original advertisers.</P><P>Of course, the unintended consequence here is that I have no interest in playing their silly reindeer games, and just close the CAPTCHA page instead of proceeding to the clickbait site.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Are others seeing this new phenomenon, where general web users are placed in the middle between two sets of pseudo-scammers?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:37:34 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/ClickBait-with-CAPTCHA/m-p/21192#M2596 CraginS 2019-04-14T17:37:34Z