sunder wrote:
Igor Chudov wrote:
I have a website (www.algebra.com) that makes money from banners. I have a suspicion that a small percentage of my users uses Junkbusters proxy in order to avoid seeing my banners.
And what's so special about your website that viewers couldn't find the same content elsewhere, or would be willing to turn out viewing the ads just for your site?
Maybe there is nothing special about my site. And I don't mind junkbusters users going elsewhere. I just do not want them to waste my precious bandwidth.
If someone's actively filtering out ads from your site, it is of course your right to not let them have access, but it's not likely that they would bend over backwards to tell JunkBusters or one of the other filters to let them view your banners. So unless you have some unique and very compelling/attractive content, you're just going to alienate more users.
Well, they are pretty useless to me anyway.
And setting a cookie on a web tracking GIF is not likely to win you any friends either. Look at it this way, if they're filtering banner ads, they're likely filtering cookies also. Even if you redirect them to a page that says "To view my great wonderous site, turn on cookies and allow banner ads" you are now forcing users to go through even more contortions.
They cannot use many features of my site without cookies anyway. These features include a linear algebra workbench (a unique service as far as I was able to determine), standardized testing, "My Homework" and so on. These features store a lot of session information about the users and use cookies to reference the stored data.
At which point the smarter ones will realize that they need a specific cookie, and will just set it by hand.
I am not interested in a war of wits. I think that if 1) I indeed have a nmeasurable part of bandwidth being used by junkbusters users, and 2) junkbusters are easy to detect, then I woul dlike to do it and kick them out. I do not have the mania grandioza to believe that Junkbusters will do anything just because Algebra.com found a smart ass way to detect their users. - Igor.