htaccess is the way to go

http://leww.fusker.com/ is really fucked up now. Most of the images are red-x or a message pops that says the image has been removed. Looks like most webmasters have taken note of them.

Think Leww has been fuckered :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The new fuskers work though.

even got http://www.jennajamesonprivate.com/

Not sure that is really a Jenna site!

interesting

It's been said a few times in this thread but half of you are not absorbing it... so I'll make it crystal clear for you. :error

You can redirect an img src, but only to another image. The browser is expecting an image and will not render HTML.

Here, I'll prove it, img src'ing yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/

Depending on your browser you'll either see a red X, broken pic, or nothing at all. You cannot img src HTML and expect it to display.

Thank you for listening and understanding. :winkwink:

You have to remember, this isn't traffic - they are loading images, not pages. If they were loading pages, you could live with it.

So you just redirect image hotlinks back to random pages on their domain (just use the file name they requested as a page... that is enough to generate a 404 on their end). So when they request 100 images from your server, they have to handle 100 404 requests.

Fusker as a service needs to die.

Alex

I've decided to post a free tip because hotlinking sucks... use this script to send back a 401 result (authentication failed/password required). This will pop up a password prompt.

<?php
$msg = "Visit www.mydomain.com for the real pics";
header("HTTP/1.0 401 authreq");
header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"$msg\"");
die;
?>

Use your htaccess to redirect hotlinks to that script. Replace $msg with whatever text you want to appear in the password prompt box.

Enjoy.

That's interesting.

Wow. I must say that I am surprised by how many webmasters followed this thread and implemented .htaccess. Even a couple of days ago, you could go to fusker and 99% of the galleries showed pics. Now, it's about 1/2 pics and 1/2 red x's or advertising messages.

And slapass, the method for .htaccess you have chosen will work. Just so others know the difference between the htaccess I provided and the one you listed...mine is used to block specific domains, such as fusker. Yours prevents hotlinking from any and all sites, except for your own domain.

The only reason I prefer my method better is that some TGPs pull a thumbnail from your gallery, and display it on their front page, which then links to your full gallery, complete with your advertising. I don't want to block this legitimate use of images.

Gotcha. I do not need to worry about that. I did add a bunch of stuff over there so I could generate so more ads. Lets see if they work.

Ditto, ditto.

update: They convert on AFF. not huge but 200 this month on 10k hits a day. ACC might do better with all the amateur porn pics versus "real" people at AFF but i have my reasons. The switching the pic is not the huge money maker I was hoping for.

i found some interesting stats on fusker.lewww.com on adbrite where you can advertise on their page. they get 2 million page views a day

send it to LoudCash - $5 per 1000 impressions.

Has nobody considered that they are indeed a source of targeted advertising?

They type a keyword into the search to find your images- if they are watermarked, then it's free, targeted advertising.....

Create a domain that sends the user to your sponsots affiliate code, now put that domain on a banner and send hotlinkers there....

How do you track this? Dedicated domain or did you manage to cram http://go.adultfriendfinder.com/p398...923324/3128074 into your image? :Graucho



I wonder how well the paid fusker.lewww advertising converts...

BTW, I wouldn't mind making 200 bucks (or is that 200 free signups) from serving 300,000 images. Sounds like easy money to me.

I do not number my images in sequence so they get a 404 if they "look" for the missing image. Not sure how many images i serve.

I have used htaccess to block fusker for a long time... well since I noticed one month refferrers from fusker used 400 gigs of bw.

I feed them a gif with a URL on it. it is a small gif so not a huge draw on bandwidth.