Forum thread on the eZula "scumware" and possible responses.

Editorial suggesting "loud, pointed, organized protests" against this attempt to "take over your web pages."

Explains how Top Text and similar programs can negatively affect income streams, particularly for sites that use affilate programs.

Article on Interactive Advertising Bureau's possible regulatory complaint over Gator's ad insertion. Also discusses Top Text and the effort against it.

Article describing the financial arrangements, briefly mentioning the controversy.

A webmaster's editorial accusing TopText and Intelsoft International's Surf+ of theft, false advertising, and deceptive self-promotion.

Editorial asking "How far should advertising go?" Examines eZula's browser plug in as a specific example of unethical advertising.

Provides a script killer for the eZula software. Also works on Surf+.

Information to help users and webmasters identify when Top Text is installed.

Discussion about the eZula TopText defacement in the context of copyright violation.

San Francisco Chronicle: mentions concerns about the ethics of covert advertising, and commercial firms outraged by links to competitors' sites.

"Advertisers try aggressive (and annoying) hyperlink technology to make the Web pay."

Petition protesting insertion of advertising links on web pages.

Information for webmasters and surfers about the eZula TopText browser plugin and a similar program called Surf+.

Explains how the eZula system works and provides resources that allow users to remove it and to help web site owners protect their sites from unwanted advertising insertion.

Article on Commission Junction's apparent blessing of Ezula's links, followed by a lively discussion.

Examines the spread of both "spyware" and programs that add commercial links to websites. KaZaa's distribution of eZula is heavily featured.

Article about anti-competitive involuntary hyperlinks being placed by Top Text (aka ContextPro).

Resources for webmasters facing traffic-stealing programs including eZula's TopText, Surf+ and Gator.

Portal News article about the fight against unauthorized ad link insertion.

Editorial decrying stealth download tactics, copyright and other legal violations.

Provides coding web masters can add to their pages to prevent Top Text inserted links.

Web owners upset by changed content; describes an "opt-out" procedure.

Resources, news and forums for the fight against contextual advertising.

Information and resources primarily for webmasters who wish to fight unethical contextual advertising.

Provides script to disable Top Text and Surf+. Documents source code alterations made by these programs.

Webmasters and surfers, mostly disapproving of the embedded advertising links.

Discussion of web design to detect and defeat contextual advertising, including recognizing the HotText and TopText plugins.

Gives information on how to remove/unistall TopText, and links to other more detailed resources.