At 11:19 AM -0500 10/28/00, 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.
I do not want to serve such users at all and I do not want them to use my bandwidth.
Is there any way to detect a user of Junkbusters in a CGI/mod_perl script?
Your presumably-misspelled subject line, "Ho to KICK OUT Junkbusters users," seems ironically appropriate. Though some prefer the spelling "Hoe." 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. As for the ads themselves, who ever looks at them? The doc com ad stream model has been collapsing since its inception...only in the last six months has the message gotten nearer to the dinosaur's brain. --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.