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mousetrapping

Norwegian translation: musefelle

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English term or phrase:mousetrapping
Norwegian translation:musefelle

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22:02 Mar 22, 2010
English to Norwegian translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Internet, e-Commerce
Additional field(s): Marketing / Market Research
English term or phrase: mousetrapping
Definition from Crucial Marketing:
The use of browser tricks in an effort to keep a visitor captive at a site, often by disabling the "Back" button or generated repeated pop-up windows.

Example sentence(s):
  • Mousetrapping can also be achieved by putting a redirect page into the browser history, so that whenever people click on the "back" button, they go to the redirect page, which puts them right back at the location they wanted to leave in the first place. Media Life
  • Mousetrapping isn’t anywhere near as popular a practice as it once was, but I still come across the milder forms from time to time. taming the beast.net
  • Mousetrapping gained public attention recently through litigation cases have focused mainly on trademark and unfair-competition theories of wrongdoing-as well as simple copying infringements under copyright law, because of the relationship of mousetrapping to pagejacking IEEE
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musefelle
Definition:
Generell bruk av skitne nettlesertriks.
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musefelle


Definition from own experience or research:
Generell bruk av skitne nettlesertriks.

Example sentence(s):
  • Hvordan Microsoft gikk i sin egen musefelle I versjon 5 av Internet Explorer la Microsoft til en funksjon hvor brukere automatisk ble sendt til søketjenesten i nettstedet MSN dersom de brukte adresselinjen til å skrive inn et domenenavn som ikke eksisterte. Nyttig for dem som ville brukt en søkemotor for å finne fram, bortkastet tid for andre. - digi.no  
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