CDR: Re: Ho to KICK OUT Junkbusters users

[Tim May]

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

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