What is Ady Spy?

I just checked on one of my blogs and there is "ads Spy 2 sites by this Adsense ID" above all of my ads. Now I see it above the ad in the upper right hand corner of this site.

I clicked on the link on mine and it brought me to this: http://adsspy.com/search.php?url=greenhomeimprovements.info&uid=pub-5035268890156403&system=adsense

 

You are not the only one seeing it dude . I also see it every where !

 

Don't know what you are seeing. But I looked at that site, seems odd that they can get information about the sites and owners from their Google ID, don't like that much.

 

I can't figure out how they are making their links show up on my site! I have no idea unless google has something to do with it.

 

Hi

Its on DP as well. What the heck is this? This is not only altering my sites design but also effecting CTR. Does any one see the positives of collecting data from adsspy?? I've contacted Adsspy to take their data out from my site, I will post here if I get a reply from them.

regards
vmwebhost


****Just got a reply from them****

Don't worry.
It shows only for SeoQuake users with AdsSpy plugin.

Best regards
AdsSpy.com

 

You can disable it in FF by going into SEO Quake preferences (double click SeoQuake icon in bottom right) and uncheck the box in the AdSpy tab. It confused me at first, too. Apparently it came with the latest update of SEO Quake.

 

well, as I can see, we have some misundertanding here...
it just shows you number of other sites with the same publisher's ID

 

Well it's wrong then because my ID is on a little more than 2 sites!

 

Can you tell me what the "Get FULL Report" is then?

Thanks.

 

Hm.. It's beta version.

 

This is a list of domains with this ID. I think so...

 

weird , i don't like the idea

 

ah thanks, I was wondering where this was coming from as well

 

agreed, showing another publisher ID

 

well, please send this url to - they will check it

 

I dont like the idea

 

Can you explain us what you don't like and why?

 

Because it's annoying as hell!
I didn't ask for this information, nor did I ask for the plug-in to be activate during an update!
We are fully capable of finding this information out when we want to. But having this information display on pages each time breaks the nice design. What were you all thinking!
Personally, I don't give a rat's behind what the Google user ID's are. And I might add that using software to track Google ID's I think is against their rules (if someone can check the rules?)
If so, this should be reported to them.
Either way I have uninstalled the SeoQuake (Firefox) extension. They don't deserve my support because they allow people to pull this kind of garbage.

Bottom line... If you want a service to be automatically activated (which is what happened during an update of SeoQuake). Then ask first!!!!!! When visiting someone's house, you don't walk over to their fridge and help yourself to whatever food or drink you want, do you?

 

Thats what happens when you trust too much to someone you should not trust at all.

 

This is not very good for anyone using Adsense. AdsSpy has essentially made a database of information that has potentially put every legitimate Adsense account at risk. SEOQuake has taken it a step further and made it only a click away to easily get a sites Adsense ID on the fly. I think you guys are treading on thin ice here. If some major company who has 20 websites gets their Adsense account banned because some competitor decides to put their Adsense ID on one of their sites, which is a MFA site. Who do you think is getting a call from their lawyer when the major corporation gets banned and they figure out there is a website publishing their IDs, not only that, but for a fee? Are you crazy? That is probably illegal in its own right because that is not your intellectual property to sell, or bundle with a sale. I would shut the project down immediately before you get a call from someone's lawyer, whether it be a big company or just a regular webmaster.