What are Microsoft Smart Tags?
Microsoft Smart Tags are additional hyperlinks added to web pages that lead visitors away from those web pages to Microsoft-favored web pages. What do Microsoft Smart Tags mean for my online business? Microsoft Smart Tags could mean lost visitors, lost sales, and lost revenue. Click here to see an example of how Microsoft’s anti-competitive and unfair Smart Tags lead NetBank’s customers to Netbank’s competitor, Wells-Fargo. (NetBank disabled Microsoft Smart Tags on its website once Microsoft Smart Tags’ potential damage was brought to the attention of NetBank’s CEO.) What do Microsoft Smart Tags mean for me as an individual? Microsoft invades your privacy, steals your personal information, and records your web browsing habits. Microsoft Smart Tags are implemented in such a way that Microsoft Internet Explorer must connect to Microsoft servers to determine which additional words or phrases to hyperlink on a given web page. While making this connection to Microsoft, Internet Explorer tra
