Programs: Lock up your servers against Fusker

[RawAlex]

raymor, I think that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Sparky: I think that for affiliates and programs alike, people surfing with privacy software is just a waste of time anyway. These people are WAY to scared to even suggest to use a credit card online, so why bother?

Fusker also has links like this:
http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/htt...a/PHOT0500.jpg

They are using anonymizer to try to hide themselves.

People using this type of service have issues. Programs should not be sad to see them not be able to see content.

Alex

[Useless]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Sparky: I think that for affiliates and programs alike, people surfing with privacy software is just a waste of time anyway. These people are WAY to scared to even suggest to use a credit card online, so why bother?

I whole-heartedly agree. These surfers probably aren't even seeing our banners anyway because they have Norton blocking all advertising. I really don't mind if they don't see my images.

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

I read on another board that programs don't necessarily mind fusker grabbing their pictures. Still people are seeing the watermark on these photos, still seeing the URL, maybe they might type in the url and the program would get some type in traffic.

And George Bush will bring democracy to the Middle East.

That is flawed thinking on the sponsor's part. There are sooo many pics on Fusker and such a large variety, it offers much more content than many paysites (perhaps all). Type-in traffic from Fuskerers is as plentiful as exit link traffic, I'm sure. I'd fire my marketing & promotions person if he/she told me that I'd make money by allowing hotlinking without any real text & banner advertising to go along with it.

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

And George Bush will bring democracy to the Middle East.

That is flawed thinking on the sponsor's part. There are sooo many pics on Fusker and such a large variety, it offers much more content than many paysites (perhaps all). Type-in traffic from Fuskerers is as plentiful as exit link traffic, I'm sure. I'd fire my marketing & promotions person if he/she told me that I'd make money by allowing hotlinking without any real text & banner advertising to go along with it.

lol, that's pretty much what I thought. I've always believed that the industry would do better if they limit the amount of free porn they give away. It's the one thing I noticed most coming from mainstream pages to adult pages. A lot of adult pages give way too much away.

When I started surfing for porn in the early 90's, lol, it was a pain in the ass to find good free porn and I bought a few memberships to avoid the annoyance of it...now there's so much free porn it kind of amazes me at times when people do buy memberships.