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Originally posted by dj_sniffy
On your other point about trying to block. Yes, a webmaster could try to block us, and of course that would just raise our suspicions as why someone would want to hide.
I would hope that only a small handful of affiliate webmasters would be concerned about sniffy's actions, since they would be initiated on behalf of an affiliates sponsor, to ensure compliance with THEIR policy of no CP sites.
Sniffy is not meant to be a big brother type operative. We would hope that fellow webmasters would be supportive of any measures that could help reduce CP.
-dj
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Hmm.. To be devil's advocate here.. This is starting to sound very Orwellian to say the least...
Because someone blocks it, they must have something to hide ?? Thats the tactics the cops use to get in to search your car... "What do you have to hide?".. Well in this case, not a damn thing, but it is my right, as payer of my server expenses to control my traffic anyway I choose.
It may not mean to be a "big brother", but quite frankly, I have the right to run my sites the way I want to... If the only thing that sniffy is doing is checking for cp, you might be able to sell that... But, that is not the only thing it is doing... It is actually creating, basically, a roadmap of my sites, my content and my templates....
I work with many more than one sponsor. What you are doing here is "potentially" giving a sponsor the ability to check out everything I am doing, what sponsors I am using, who I am selling/sharing my traffic with. What is to stop you from selling that info to the sponsor... Then if one sponsor starts playing war with another sponsor, what is to stop them from cutting me off, or threatening me.. "hey, you better lose sponsor so and so if you want to use us as a sponsor"... What is to stop you from passing all my domain and site info to a particular sponsor...
The sponsor might have a right to access a gallery that I am sending them traffic from in order to check on me, but you are compiling an entire database of all my domains/sites/galleries. What is to stop you from misusing this info. Your good name ??
Further... You are compiling perhaps an entire catalog of all adult web content... What security will you have in place to keep hackers out of the database? If all the images are stored in one place, it makes it a nice target for those that want a shitload of images on the cheap and easy.
Using multiple ips to run the bots from is no problem, but using faked referral strings, etc to subterfuge the .htaccess is. These are standard hacker techniques often used by unscrupulous webmasters to hotlink and steal content. If you are using the same techniques then you are the same as them and I feel that I would have the right to block you for the same reasons. Just because your cause is "righteous" does not allow you to use the same tactics. The ends CANNOT be used to justify the means.