Ad-blocking continued.

From: Sean Dillon <sean_at_telegraph.co.uk>
Date: Thu 23 May 2002 12:24:23 -0600

Further to the recent conversation about ad-blocking and
how we can try to protect our business, I found the
following link off the phpadsnew SourceForge site.

http://www.antiadbuster.com

Available as a simple include for PHP and ASP, it seems to
work solely based on user-agent, identifying the following
UAs as ad-blockers,

offline,
stripper,
webzip,
web downloader,
webreaper,
anarchie,
mass \ down,
blackwindow,
ExtractorPro,
CherryPicker,
webstripper,
teleport,
webwasher,
adsubtract,
offline explorer,
superbot,
wget,
libwww,
httrack,
fetch,
muncher

Now, this obviously doesn't deal with a number of alternative
methods for ad-blocking, eg: .lmhosts and .host file
redirection, firewall/gateway filtering and other methods
which do not amend or change the user-agent.

Has anybody used MediaBeam's Adkey yet? There was a lot of talk
about it last year, but so far I haven't heard a dickey bird
about what they plan to do or if indeed they have rolled the
product out yet.


Sean Dillon
Traffic Manager
www.telegraph.co.uk

e: sean_at_telegraph.co.uk
t: 020-7531-3236
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