Gone are the days when you spam the web with useless ads and expect people to buy into your message (unless you're a soulless pay-per-click jockey, you're out of luck).

你在网上发一些没用的广告并且希望人们会相信你的垃圾邮件(除非你是个靠着点击率过活的卑鄙小人)的那些日子一去不复返了。这个同样也证实了生命中的任何事情。

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The book business is fussy, and readers who encounters finger spam in the wrong location aren't going to click on the next result.

图书业是一个很挑剔的行业，这些读者在一个原本不应该看到手指肠的地方看到了他们，那么他们就不会继续在这里停留。

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Spam was never about email; it was about convincing us to click.

垃圾邮件从不只是邮件，它是一个引诱我点击它的载体。

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Users who clicked on the links became vulnerable to programs installed on their computers that were designed to steal bank codes, send spam and engage in click fraud.

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Along with millions of other out-of-date and unsecured PCs strung together by the Internet--what Corman calls "the leper colony"--those machines represent a combined mass of computing power responsible for most of the Net's spam e-mails, much of its click fraud, and the vicious "denial of service" attacks that can knock sites offline and even destroy online businesses altogether.

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This classification is typically in the form of requesters asking you to sign up for services, register for events, click to sites, send email or notifications to others, and other actions to pad numbers of registrations or directly spam information.

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