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Anyway it's all disturbing -- but in reality a bot that would be able to elude detection would have to be customized to hell and would cost a small fortune to code and implement -- and you can bet there would be VERY few people using such an advanced bot... You have to consider that the amount of time and money put into such a "killer" bot would have to be justified by a score of cash worthy of that time and money. Nobody is going to invest many hundreds of hours of coding time just to steal some hits from your little CJ site.
Most webmasters know their sites intimately -- and bot behavior is always going to appear abnormal if used in excess -- so really how much money could you be losing? Not much at all. You can spend days in worry like I did at first -- in the end you have to live with the looming potential for evil. My advice is to do biz w/ lots of smaller players and you will never have the problem of a few corrupt persons taking advantage of you... Diversify.
Sponsors aren't too worried about fake hits as long as the sales come in.
But you got to wonder if any sponsors cheat themselves -- to create payouts out of thin air... for whatever purposes. LOL
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