Oh dear.
The Brexit campaign’s Business for Britain website is secretly advertising the sale of illicit drugs from China.
A quick look at the source code shows the website is riddled with numerous embedded links to buy illegal drugs without prescription:
The dodgy website being advertised by the Brexit campaign is registered in China:
The embedded links will appear whenever the website is copied and shared and will boost the sales of the illicit drugs by making the websites rank higher in web searches.
So not so much ‘Business for Britain’ as ‘Business for China’.
I presume this is just a case of simple incompetence on behalf of the Brexit campaign – and not anything more sinister.
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Pride's Purge 
Typical (s)tory incompetence, init?
“Listed as a rogue pharmacy” ?
Or maybe typical (s)tory hypocritical criminal activity?
Either is consistent with those incompetent, criminal scumbags!
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LOL! It’s ironic that ‘Business for Britain’ registered their various domains in Canada and is using an incompetent Chinese web designer!
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Has anyone else managed to confirm this?
I see nothing of the sort in the source code and, while it is perfectly possible that somebody has already cleaned up the code, what I think is a lot more likely is that John Mortimer’s browser is infected by malware that inserts links to Chinese online pharmacies into pages.
[Browsers can’t insert things into a website’s source code. I’ve just checked and the links are still there. Go to the Business for Britain home page, right click and choose show source code. Then scroll down to around line 256. You’ll see the same inserted links on most other pages of the website.] – TOM
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Quick tip, if you’re using chrome download the ‘Web Developer’ extension, disable css styling and find the links in all their glory.
http://imgur.com/gpkM6t6
This type of link spamming is an old and outdate method used to try and build up a site’s authority by including ‘hidden’ links on a website.
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OK. The first time I looked they weren’t there. This time they are. My suspicion is that there is malware on one or more servers in the web cluster so that not every response is riddled with ads.
I assure you that web browsers are capable of doing anything they like with the code at the browser end; how else do you thing userscripts and adblockers work? Of course they don’t change code at the server end but there is plenty of malware that does very much insert links and ads into webpages.
But anyway, I’ve seen the dodgy code returned by their webeserver now.
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Exactly Larfing Guy.
In this case, I would suspect a hacked or dodgy WordPress plugin that’s inserting the links some 42,302 px to the left of the content.
Whatever you feel about the exit campaigners, this is unlikely to be either intentional or a result of cheap code re-use, other than the normal and common use of WordPress plugins to rapidly develop webpages.
Problems such as this are rife with Wortdpress. The only responsible response is to inform the website owners of the problem to allow them to remedy it.
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Indeed. Tom needs to avoid jumping on tenuous issues such as these and focus on what they are actually doing and saying.
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Well the good news is, so far, it’s not infecting the Remain site.
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well go and tell them smu95rp., I wouldn’t have anything to do them myself. I’d have thought Chinese registered websites told you a great deal about what Britian for Business does, but whatever, keep making excuses for them and wrongly blaming other people’s browsers.
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I was going to provide an answer to a previous post about malware, but the post has disappeared. Does this blog allow allow users to remove their posts?
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I sent them a message via Twitter. No response but maybe someone will pick it up. Ultimately it’s up to them.
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You are missing the point. http://businessforbritain.org/ is NOT registered in China; the malware is inserting Chinese pharmacy links but there is NO reason whatsoever to think that the Business For Britain has anything to do with China.
In fact their website (.org TLD – global) is registered by Tucows which shows up as a Canadian address because Tucows is based in Toronto.
Tom Pride has actually spread quite a lot of misinformation via this post which is rather disappointing, but insinuating that malware-inserted links to Chinese pharmaceutical companies are in some way directly related to the Business For Britain campaign.
FWIW I know very little about Business For Britain themselves and generally look askance at the sort of hare-brained pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking that most of the exit campaigns are guilty of in the absence of any tangible and believable benefits to the UK for leaving.
But Tom Pride is doing himself (themselves?) no favours by spreading misinformation and inaccurate insinuation.
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jay, not that I can see but I wish it allowed me to correct my typos 😉
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The Brexit campaign is supposedly secretly advertising illegal Chinese drugs? What the feck for? This is just paranoid rubbish.
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I would much rather sign up to TTIP and let the americans tell me what to think, what to believe and what to spend what little money I have. After all, the americans with 98 out the last 100 years at war with whoever they like are my kinda people. FFS this debate is so limited it’s claustrophobic
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TBH it’s not really “the Americans”, it’s the multinational credit finance industry; admittedly a chunk of which is headquartered on Wall St.
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