…”click here to view”.
Yes, it seems almost anything is a target for money generating survey spam.
In this case, we start with a Youtube video:
And we finish with this:
Even better, these “fill in a survey to see the content” websites now pop up an additional message as you try to leave the page:
“Help keep this content free. Please take one minute to complete a SPAM-free market research survey to gain access to this special content.”
Free? They’re preventing the end-user from reading the content unless they sign away their personal information to third party advertisers, while generating affiliate revenue for the owner of the webpage.
I suppose we should be thankful the Youtube link just took us to a spam site, instead of some sort of Malware install…
Christopher Boyd