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Ad on the homepage of https://www.telegraphindia.com.

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[mention]smed79[/mention] Thanks the filter works. I have a question, if you click on the ad above it takes you to:
http://gaussnetworks.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=764&aff_id=1604

Do you know what is go2cloud.org? I have seen this on many ads but could not find any information on it. It leads to many scam and phishing sites as well. Seems like an ad platform :?.
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gotitbro wrote:Do you know what is go2cloud.org?
go2cloud probably is a low cost CDN (not an adserver) and like any other similar service can be abused for phishing, scam, malvertising...
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smed79 wrote: Tue Jun 20, 2017 2:18 am go2cloud probably is a low cost CDN (not an adserver) and like any other similar service can be abused for phishing, scam, malvertising...
I was thinking the same but then I noticed that all go2cloud.org links contained similar parameters such as /aff_c?offer_id=[1] which lead me to finding out that the go2cloud.org domain is controlled by the link tracking platform HasOffers owned by Tune, Inc.[2][3]

Unfortunately many scammers also seem to be using this network for their own nefarious purposes and it gets hard to report these when you can't even find out who controls the domain.[4] I don't understand why companies as big as Tune.com use private registrations for their domains making it hard for people to file abuse reports.[5]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site:go2cloud.org
[2] http://status.hasoffers.com/449868
[3] https://help.tune.com/hasoffers/parameters-macros-in-hasoffers/
[4] https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/go2cloud.org
[5] http://whois.domaintools.com/go2cloud.org
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FYI, ||go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id= was blocked by Liste FR 13 months ago https://hg.adblockplus.org/listefr/rev/ ... 75ca#l1.66
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[mention]smed79[/mention] That's great, I believe the same can be done in EasyList if it considers affiliate links as ads.
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