Breadcrumb Trails: The Dark Art of Link Hijacking

A Guide to Stealing the Clickbait

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The Techniques

1. Breadcrumb Trails - the art of creating a trail of links leading to nowhere, only to lure victims into your lair.

2. Typosquadding - the practice of sprinkling typos throughout your links, making them irresistible to click.

3. Redirects R Us - the science of sending users on wild goose chases, only to return them to the same page.

4. Meta-Redirects - the dark art of redirecting users to a page that's not even on the same site.

5. Link Spamming - the art of flooding the user's browser with links, until they surrender.

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