I have peer guardian running in the background on my computers. PeerGuardian (PG) stops unauthorized connections to your computer thus preventing snooping, phoning home etc. Its designed to stop installed software making outside connections without your permission. With PG running no ads from tradedoubler show, you get a 404 error. You cannot even access the tradedoubler website with it on, you get 404 error. This means that when I visit my website I see all the tradedoubler ads are missing and there are iframes with 404 errors. I only see this problem with tradedoubler content. Lots of people have peer guardian and the like running in the background on their computer. Therefore I see tradedoubler as being an affiliate program to avoid? I mean you can't even visit their home page ...doesn't that mean their home page is unorthodox and has scripts/applets in it that start trying to open connections or something. Does anyone know?
Just did some research and there are quite a few complaints about tradedoubler being blocked by spyware because of its tracking cookie system. Im thinking perhaps that 'beware affliates using tracking cookies' is a well known thing and Ive just stumbled across it. Quote: 'TradeDoubler.com belongs to Cookie spyware category.' Also: forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=19096