[tor-talk] Hijacking Advertising to give a Tor Exit node economic sustainability?

Javier Bassi javierbassi at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 21:05:27 UTC 2011


On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
<lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:
>(...)
> Could a Tor Exit Node pay itself and eventually generate more revenue to
> install other tor server by being self-supported by advertising?
>
> A Tor Exit Node could modify all the advertising that the user see while
> web browsing (google adwords, facebook, doubleclick, etc) by injecting
> it's own sponsored AD in http flow.
>(...)

A tor exit node will not be able to produce a dime this way because
its always the same IP that is watching/clicking ads (his own ads) so
the clicks will not count or the account will get banned in all
adsense services.

Still, changing links to amazon, ebay and other similar websites by
adding the referral/tag of the tor exit node owner could produce
income, regardless the IP. But who browse the internet for shopping
via tor?


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