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		<title>Latest Version of Joomap Has Hidden Advertising</title>
		<description>Discuss Latest Version of Joomap Has Hidden Advertising</description>
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			<title>anonymous says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-8220</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I was using yvcomment for one year. I didn't know that they inject the hidden ads. My site recently got very red warning from Chrome. It says 'contains elements from the site www.superadultsearch.com' I had no idea why I got the warning. After I spent long time to find link, I finally noticed the hidden ads. I disabled the yvcomment. I hope chrome remove the warning...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Brian Teeman says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5875</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of extensions that include hidden backlinks with no option to remove them at all. Although they are backlinks to the extension developer and not to a 3rd party advertisor imho they are just as bad. one has 867,000 google link results and another has over 7.3 million The only links that should appear on your page are those you insert yourself]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Brian Teeman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5875</guid>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5874</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Zorro 1) The original versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 didn't have the option to turn it off 2) It needs a warning saying "checking yes will put you in violation of Google's guidelines" He's not the only one to do this, so I don't want to make too much of it. It would be nice instead to find a way to credit developers with genuine, over-board links (JoomlaCredits) rather than tempting them to resort to this.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Klaus Nitsche says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5873</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Well, in all fairness - while it may be a bit on the edge of sneakiness in the case of Joomap, the option to disable the link is right there in the configuration, clearly visible to any site admin who actually takes a little time to configure their setup and is able to read what's in front of them. To me, that has quite a different quality from the way Artio inject their spammy links, for example. That's not to say hidden links are a good thing. Of course, they're not, and the author made a big mistake by including them ... something he might regret dearly now. But then again, if you look at your configuration carefully (which you should after updating a component), I find it hard to miss the option to disable the links. Kind regards, Zorro]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Klaus Nitsche</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5873</guid>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5870</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the feedback guys. Anne - thats a great link and backs up what people are saying here. Mirko - you're absolutely right. Xmap are doing the same thing! I've posted on Joomla.org: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,242770.0.html Basically I said two things: 1) Components with hidden advertising should be removed in the same way as others who break the Extension Directory rules 2) Joomlacredits should be included in the core]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5870</guid>
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			<title>XMAP too</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5869</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just looked for alternatives. What a suprise - the well-known "XMAP", which build on joomap, has the same hidden feauture !]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mirko</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5869</guid>
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			<title>Mirko says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5868</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi there, Hidden Links are always the wrong way ! I wrote a short message to Daniel Grothe, the german developer of Joomap with this problem. I hope he will bring out a patch without this "fault". If not, the hole power of the J!Community will strike back ;-) or someone should rewrite a new Joomap...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mirko</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5868</guid>
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			<title>Sign of the times?</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5867</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Amit at Digital Inspiration had a similar post with a blog readability badge. http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/blog-readability-test-online-scam/1910/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anne Hennegar</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5867</guid>
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			<title>Ulas ALKAN says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5866</link>
			<description><![CDATA[wow, that's intresting . as i know , google is following the hidden links . google may punish people because of this:sad:]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ulas ALKAN</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>David Towers says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/latest-version-of-joomap-has-hidden-advertising/#comment-5864</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Steve, I agree that because the temptation is there, it mean it's right! That's theologically sound too! Anyway, I think you're right in that it would have been more ethical if the author had put a text link on the sitemap page. (p.s. the links to "template links" and components links" are broken)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Towers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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