Truth Parlor

Facebook has sent Brad of MaddPPC.com a cease & desist letter regarding the 2 tools Facebook Spy and Facebook Link Cloaker. As you know there are many tools like this that are scrapers for the various advertising platforms like Facebook, MySpace and even tools for the big 3, Google, Yahoo and MSN’s search marketing products.

The biggest complaint are from the other advertisers who have spend their hard earned money testing and their own brain juice to create an add and target it properly with the right offers to these massive crowds on the social networking sites like Facebook.

Another issue that has arisen, other than stolen ad copy, is the abundance of click fraud that happens from their competitors who instead of spending their time creating kick ass campaigns, part take in shitty advertising tactics like using bots to fraudulently click on competitors ads to drive their competitors’ costs so high that they have to eventually give up that campaign.  Thank goodness for the valuable CPM option, however, it shows that ethics in this business is down the shit hole and has been there for as long as this business has existed.

Marketers who participate in perpetuating click fraud are like those lowly basement dweebs who do nothing but create Trojans and mal-ware that do damage to your life in the various ways including financially. They don’t have the skills and confidence that they can make it in this cut throat business without screwing with other people’s business.

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However, as far as the creator of the Facebook Spy goes, he stands behind his product because it did not automatically produce fraudulent clicks. He ws asked to provide a list of his customers and he’s telling FB to go to hell on that request.

Though I haven’t actually purchased a copy and have only recently visually seen it’s capabilities, I can completely understand why advertisers and Facebook are pissed off.  However, like any other advertising medium, your ad copy is generally not copyrighted and trademarked unless you take the effort to do so, which is quite unrealistic with the mass production of ad copy and their revisions from super affiliates.

So move on and make some money folks.