Ojits.info, LinkShare affiliate oKAdLj4xXBs redirecting to Magazines.com

Twenty Oft-Found Commission Junction and LinkShare Affiliate Violations - Wesley Brandi and Ben Edelman

Our crawler requests Ojits.info and is redirected to the LinkShare click link with affiliate ID oKAdLj4xXBs, then on to Magazines.com.

Did this user want to visit Magazines.com? There is no particular reason to think so. In multiple respects, this falls short of requirements in LinkShare's Publisher Membership Agreement. Furthermore, in our experience sites sending zero-click .info traffic are typically concealing other traffic sources of even greater concern -- though we have not determined what specific source might cause users to visit Ojits.info.

Violations: Forced click

 

Packet log

GET http://ojits.info/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Media Center PC 5.1; AskTbARS/5.8.0.12304)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: ojits.info

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Location: /
Connection: Close
Proxy-Connection: Close

 

GET http://ojits.info/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Media Center PC 5.1; AskTbARS/5.8.0.12304)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: ojits.info

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:02:51 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Location: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=oKAdLj4xXBs&offerid=54694.7&type=3&subid=0
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

 

GET http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=oKAdLj4xXBs&offerid=54694.7&type=3&subid=0 HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Media Center PC 5.1; AskTbARS/5.8.0.12304)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: click.linksynergy.com

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: lsn_statp=0WPDvBkAAADI4vfne1j4mg%3D%3D; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Sun, 31-Oct-2032 17:02:52 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsn_qstring=oKAdLj4xXBs%3A258174%3A; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Tue, 06-Nov-2012 17:02:52 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsn_track=UmFuZG9tSVbpZhs%2Bwr1hDojK2wcHec2%2BEosxeJptF7CMELeqgf7r7YWgiBTQjjka064AgDAmpC8SEVbme107lA%3D%3D; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Thu, 03-Nov-2022 17:02:52 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsclick_mid1154="2012-11-05 17:02:52.696|oKAdLj4xXBs-Evb10y4pn%2AqVgqOptHzUnQ"; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Wed, 05-Nov-2014 17:02:52 GMT; Path=/
P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOI DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR BUS STA"
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:02:52 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://www.magazines.com/cgi-bin2/mc/MCHomePage?siteID=oKAdLj4xXBs-Evb10y4pn%2AqVgqOptHzUnQ
Content-Length: 0
nnCoection: close
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive