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One of several techniques used to force
a visitor to stay on a website. The mildest form of mousetrapping involves the disabling
of a browser's Back button, thus preventing its user from skipping back to
the last page visited. More extreme techniques, commonly used by gambling
and pornography sites, involve flooding the visitor's screen with an endless
series of new windows pop-ups every time they attempt to leave the
site or shut down the browser, sometimes necessitating the restarting of the
compute. In 2002, a mousetrapper in the United States was fined nearly $2m
after duping thousands of users into visiting fake sites with a
typosquatting scheme. |
