A prominent anti-spyware researcher is calling on Google to sever its ties with an advertising partner that covers popular sites with pop-up PPC advertisements promoting those same sites. Ben Edelman says Google is charging advertisers for what he described as conversion-inflation traffic from the WhenU spyware program. Edelman s expose includes several screenshots, video, and packet log to show that WhenU continues to cover web sites with PPC popups. Crucially, those popups show Google ads often promoting the very same sites users are already browsing.
Source: https://threatpost.com/researcher-lifts-lid-googles-spyware-connections-010610/73328/