The New Referral Bug

Don't know if I will get caught but...

[peschomd]

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[edited by: peschomd at 8:35 pm (utc) on May 9, 2006]

[greedy player]

how much you made so far? and im not a critic, im actualy interested in how much you've earnt.

Personaly I would stick to legitment adsense adverts being clicked by unique and re-visited members in a day (i make good enough money compared to that of what you suggest with referrals)

[peschomd]

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[edited by: peschomd at 8:35 pm (utc) on May 9, 2006]

[jeepers]

I think there will be critics saying I will get caught.. but..

I don't know if you will get caught, but I sure hope you do.

This is stealing and it's wrong.

I can't wait to hear how you and others like you rationalize this one.

[greedy player]

He'll get caught probably because Webmaster world has his ip and will tell google adsense with a serious e-mail regarding the bug and who wrote it.

So he's most likely ended his happy days himself.

[peschomd]

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[Sleights]

Won't all of those computers access the outside world via the campus firewall, and therefore all of the referrals will originate from a single IP address? Have you actually received any payments for this fraudulent activity yet?

[Rodney]

Well, assuming that Google can do searches of your username and find out from your other online profiles which university you go to, it might not be hard to track you down.

Going from computer station to computer station downloading software through your link just to have it automatically removed by the computer doesn't sound like a good way to work with your advertising partner.

It's also pretty easy to spot unnatural downloading activity like you described.