11-20-2003, 05:02 PM
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Location: Quebec Calisse
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Originally posted by Smokey The Bear
Its a common trick i have noticed lately with dialers that do the geo redirecting themselves. They like to slip some past from normal areas and sludge the traffic. Then they sell off the dialer popup's to hijack the browser to a third party to boot.
I noticed this on a bunch of other sponsors lately as well. I wouldnt let the dialers have control unless your monitoring them closely.
Tip#1 dont let someone else control your traffic unless your in on the code.
Tip#2 watch them like hawks.
Im not dissing your sponsor lens , but i have noticed this problem with other sponsors. Suddenly canadians and brits and australians will be redirected for no reason.
Its almost like they are doing it on purpose because they know the people checking will be doing it from the usa.
Hell it could just be an honest mistake that i happened to notice on 3 seperate sponsors 
But it seems very suspicious. Like if i cut a deal with you to redirect your traffic that you cant process anyways thru cc card for a certain cut. Who is to say i dont add some ip ranges from good areas to boost my traffic/sales. How would you know ? You wouldnt . Until people started noticing it. With all the hijacking going on , most sponsors might just figure its a hijack or a fluke. And surfers wont know the difference , the only people who would complain is webmasters who are checking links. Again it doesnt affect everyone so just a small percentage of people get ripped and dont realise it, or write it off as an error , come back 2 days later and it works again so they dont bother complaining.
Just my opinion though and no particular slant against ads
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amen to that |
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