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? 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. 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. At which point the smarter ones will realize that they need a specific cookie, and will just set it by hand. At which point you're likely going to set up dynamic cookies to keep them from reusing old ones, and at which point, someone will add a patch to JunkBusters to allow you to set your cookie, start and abort the downloading of banner ads, and then you're fucked again, until you write an Apache module that checks for aborted banner ads, ad nauseum, etc... Ho indeed. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------