Not having a third party counter such sextracker on our site, has NEVER hurt advertising sales. I've never used one and probably never will. But we're sold out 2 - 6 months in advanced on all spots without ever fully advertising on the boards, etc. Advertisers know where the traffic is, whether you have a counter or not.

Hey Rockbear, Worldsex and Al4a are hosted with Sextracker.

I will tell you this.
#1 is 100% false
#2 is 100% true
#3 is something they think
#4 is not the case.

These guys are doing it to show how big they are and because they think it brings in more advertisers. The flip side of the coin is it makes them a huge target.

Exactly Onlymovies. It helps that you have REALLY kick ass traffic. I think the only advertisers you get from having a public counter are the noobs. And those noobs spend big bucks one month and are too broke to renew. :1orglaugh

I see netland and striclyhosting here.

But maybe that your right man. If their host is flyincroc.

So you think that if they remove their counter Flyingcroc will say: Hey you removed our counter so we don't host you anymore? If I would own a hosting company I would like to keep some big players like them for the long run. :2 cents:

I would like to know the real reason from worldsex and thehun. Thehun posted several months ago about their spyware but I don't know why that counter is back on the main page.

cough chough - remembers somes who's name started with 'C' and ended with 'O'

Hey Sleazy dude. Thanks for posting. What's your take on spyware? I know that when it comes to TGP people listen to you.

Hey Sleazy i think you just got a nice list of TOP NOTCH candidates for this week's Ambush. Bode and Bama.

Can you say HUGE views?

my take is this.
I've heard rhumors of sextracker doing this - nothing but rhumors - and NEVER on counter load - some time ago. I havn't heard anything about them using it on their counter from ANYONE other than no name trolls. I have a LOT of surfers and friends that watch and surf my site on a regular basis - as do all the other top sites. If a counter did do this my email and icq would go crazy and i would take their counter down. I've never sceen any instance of this, and untill i do as far as i'm concerned it's rhumors created by people who want to take business away from sextracker.

reality is this. If someone cheats on their wife do you stop doign business with them? If someone does illegial drugs do you not trust them?

My thought is I concern myself with my own business - if I CATCH someone using spyware or adware on my site I'll cursify them, but I've never caught sextracker doing that and I won't just take the word of others that can't provide me with ANY PROOF of where this happened. With Proof I'll string the fucker up though.


note - sextracker does use a cookie on thier counter that does show up in many spy removal software packages - this cookie is NOT spyware or adware - it's been used for years and allows one's site to be properly tracked.

Well said.. We have never seen an issue with the counter, cookie, or hosts ran by FCI. I can't speak for the dialer, which is what this spyware issue is about.

Hey sleazy..

Remeber about a year or so ago your site being hijacked?? It was the Sexocean network boys sending your traffic to some video site.. They were somehow using sites with the sextracker counter on em to manipulate your traffic..

Now that wasnt in any way due to the actions of sextracker was it? It was the punks who we assumed to be sexocean right??

I mean there are still some who insist sextracker had something to do with it all along..

I, just like you try not to believe it. But it was always in the back of my mind..

That was some wicked shit going on about a year ago with sites with the sextracker counter on em. I even took mine down for about a year and just recently put mine back up..

Now this shap thread has me thinking... Are the two stories here unrelated or is this just all one big related issue?

Ok I remember the situation now..

Someone was spreading spyware.. The technology behind it was it was triggered when a surfer hit a site that had the sextracker counter on it..

It was not the sextracker counter persay doing the action.. It was the adware-exploit that was previously installed via some other site or method.. Then when it was installed, whenever the surfer would hit a site with the tracker on it, it would hijack the surfer taking em to the popups or the dialers..

At the time it was written on that sextracker was just as much a victum of this act as we were..

I still till this day feel that they had nothing to do with this..

But yeah Ive heard stories, and of other unrelated things.. That Bama guy is a smart fucker. If he's programing for Sextracker's counter the sky is the limit.

But truthfully that hijacking issue some years back was just way too blatant and no way would Sextracker involve themselves in that..

As if they have ever touched adware in the past, yeah wouldnt suprise me.. But to what extent?? And is it really to the extent of concern??

Probably not.

Anyhow, yeah ive been back and forth on this issue personally when it comes to that tracker..
The only reason I use it really is for that top 20 ranking placement. I dont really use it to track or give me data.. Its never really been accurate for me.

Its more of just an advertisement showing off how big your dick is really and adding Value to your advertisers..

I dont have advertisers or paid spots so I really dont need the thing..

Im trying to think of why else I use it.. Other than to balance the fact I have a small cock.. Its kinda like the Corvette effect I guess.

This thread makes ya think.

Anyway, someone get me more proof or what extent any of thier spyware-adware has..

I have no problem with it really, depending on how severe or how intrusive the act is.

Damn..

I got into this discussion a bit too late so it seems..

Amen :thumbsup

Hey Bone :)

I just heard that possibly sextracker may not be involved in this at all. We shall see what happens.

the shit that happend had NOTHING to do with sextracker - the sexocean idiots were targeting sites with the the sextracker counter though. I can guarentee you sextracker had NOTHING to do with it. I'm 100% confident there about that.

yea just read about that crazy.

reality is - MOST major companies have touched adware. Most major companies have done lots of things that today would be questionable. The real question is do they do it today - i don't believe sextracker would ever touch their counter or hosting with adware and stand behind them on that cause I believe in them and continue to use them for counter and hosting.

Yep im sure too.
ST was just a target for em.

bump... looking forward to your follow up post, Shap.

Charlo Barbosa? Mr. FTC himself?

I have never used SexTracker but I do use SexCounter.com because it's an invisible counter, has a nice interface, and its backed by the people from Videosz/Deluxepass/C h o o p a

Hey Ralph. Still no news. I thought Bode would post by now. I'm guessing they are opting to stay quiet on the matter.

I guess no one cares?

I mean they can't have spyware in their counter its in the dialer

and you really think anyone is surprised dialers are full of spyware ?

bump for an interesting thread

make that 6 bro!

duke

Because it's a waste of time.
One of the worse things to hit adult sites in years and what's caused
more surfers to stop looking for porn than anything else is the XXXtoolbar.
Gamacash not only pushes it to it's affils but owns the company that writes it
and it's been on the boards for a year and people still get it.
At least they took it off their main affil signup page when they were exposed.

Sextracker are up to there neck in it! They are not inocent at all! I took there counters of my page cause of all this bullshit. You guys should check out netponds point of view on this as well.

"sextracker have nothing to do with it"

BULLSHIT

So long as thehun and worldsex use Sextracker, everyone else will also. People do nothing but copy one another in this industry. If the top 10 at sextracker stopped using sextracker, then you'd start to see some change.

:2 cents:
I love spyware. I make 29.00 every time I take it off someones computer and usually end up with a 150.00 sale installing a firewall or tweeking a system out.
I can tell you I seriously doubt that surfer ever goes back to that site again.

interesting...

Yes it does... well put! :thumbsup