At 12:04 PM -0500 10/28/00, Igor Chudov wrote:
As for finding ways to see who is avoiding looking at yoiur advertisements, most of the ad filtering is done at the recipient's machine, right? Gonna be hard for you to reach into their machines to see if they're running ad busters in a local script.
This may or may not be true. This all depends on how junkbusters script works. Perhaps junkbusters filters out all 480x90 images, for instance. In which case I can place a 480x90 transparent gif at the bottom of my entrance page, and upon request of such gif I can set something in the user's cookie that would allow him/her further browsing. A lot of things are computer detectable.
Well, you have it completely within your power to do experiments yourself, right now, at your own site. Visit a site like www.junkbusters.com and download their filters and then apply them against your own site. Everything you need to experiment with blocking their cookie-blocking tools is right there. (I just visited this site, and your own site, www.algebra.com, to see what it is you're so worried about people filtering out. Frankly, your ads were not nearly as obtrusive as some are, e.g., those ads running across the top, the bottom, and on both _sides_. Why you are worried that ads for "Gel Mouse Pads" will get blocked is beyond me...most clueless high school students trying to get your site to do their algebra homework for them will not be bothering with ad-busting proxies and other such filters.) --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.