AVNADS.COM and Adbrite: Fusker buddies

[RawAlex]

Altheon: the action recommended to stop hotlinkers (the basic one) means that I must also limit my business by not allowing google or yahoo image bots onto my sites. That means I lose traffic and exposure.

Even if the door is unlocked, you are still a thief when you walk in and steal something. Paying someone to steal something isn't exactly a legal business.

AVN and SugarDVD are smart... let's see if others follow.

Alex

PS: Hopefully adbrite, pud, and the avn people will be smart enough to filter off ALL of the fusker sites... this is starting to make me think of "cancelling" a spammer's account.

[Altheon]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Altheon: the action recommended to stop hotlinkers (the basic one) means that I must also limit my business by not allowing google or yahoo image bots onto my sites. That means I lose traffic and exposure.

why not poke a hole to allow yahoo and google?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://images\.google\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://images\.search\.yahoo\. [NC] 
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|fla|mov|avi|wmv)$ - [F,NC]

Regards,

-A