Clicker Beware

Chris McGinn posted a blog on Digital Landing. Read about how ads on any website can be harmful.

Tightwad Tod over at Consumer Reports Money Blog has an informative post about all those ads you see on social networking sites like Facebook–you know the ones touting how you, too, can have whiter teeth or learn the latest weight loss secret.

As you might expect, many of these are scams. I used to think no one would ever fall for these, but my own mother recently fell for one so I don’t take that for granted any more. Tod reminds his readers that just b/c you might trust a site that doesn’t mean you should trust all its advertisers. Additionally, he said if you click and ad and it takes you to a blog, click back on your browser.

Surf safe!