Is this normal ad behavior? (Email harvesting?)

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Yesterday, I ACCIDENTALLY tapped on a banner ad at the top of the page, I hate ads and never deliberately click on them, for reasons that ate not relevant to this post....

As soon as I saw it was an accidental tap, I stopped the page from loading, and closed the window...

Now, I'm getting spam from that website, even though I have NEVER purchased from them, and didn't even allow the page time to load, and I have never done business with them before

It seems clear to me that the web page harvested my email address due to that errant tap, that seems awfully predatory to me, just wondering if this is normal ad behavior?

I'm certainly not going to do business with this vendor now, that predatory ad spamming has guaranteed that....
 
Which ad, specifically? Also everyone should be including what OS and browser they are using when reporting these issues.

I'm just getting tired of the video ads that take tooooo long to load.. for me like 1second sometimes :) and the post after first is.. annoying and yeah.. no email spam yet for me from anything but I don't click ads. Errors.. haven't happened with me.. just don't be so mouse eager and hovering over those porn ads :)
 
iOS 6.1.x on my iPhone, it may have also been iOS 7.0.4 on my iPad, it was probably the iPad
The ad was a banner for knives ship free
 
Knives ship free is a clean site, the owner is a regular contributor as well, his name is Derrick. (okbohn). I'm running IOS 7.0.4 on an ipad 3, I've actually clicked in the adds (great dealer BTW), and no emails on my end. Maybe someone more tech savvy can chime in. :)
 
9blades said:
Knives ship free is a clean site, the owner is a regular contributor as well, his name is Derrick. (okbohn). I'm running IOS 7.0.4 on an ipad 3, I've actually clicked in the adds (great dealer BTW), and no emails on my end. Maybe someone more tech savvy can chime in. :)
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It's possible I suppose, but that is a very predatory practice if it's true.

I went to their site and I think I see your problem. The site has a pop up subscription form. You browser likely has your information stored and auto fills the form (or you accidentally initiated it), and instead of exiting the form you submitted it.

Since it happened once, the owner should consider restricting autofill programs from populating the fields, or should disable the pop up altogether. More and more people are browsing from their Phones, so website owners need to design accordingly.

For OP - the e-mail should have an option toward the bottom to unsubscribe. Just unsubscribe from the list and you should be ok.
 
I've never heard of email harvesting happening by simply clicking an ad on a forum.
 
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