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"Mousetrapping" is the practice of

"Mousetrapping" is the practice of writing popup ads that, when closed, spawn more popup ads that in turn spawn more pop ups, ad infinitum. John Zuccarini is a master mousetrapper, having registered over 5,500 domains whose names are misspellings for common words and Web-sites, and each one is a mousetrapper. Now, the FTC is suing him — if only they can find him. Link Discuss

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