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Originally posted by Monk@Aug 9 2004, 02:33 PM
I have a question;
If a program uses your solution, can they just build in a shave by using their own linking code system to siphon off every, say 5th surfer, into another processor on their own.... and send the other 4 hits to you?
This would be a 20% shave by the program (assuming hits and signups run in correlation)... even though your system has no shave built in.
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Hi Monk,
Since they do not know the internals of the software, it is going to need a LOT of reverse engeneering to figure out how to write their own tracking script without it messing up stats totally.
That said, they could of course just change their tour for every 5th surfer and use a different link, but it is VERY LIKELY that people will catch this since everyone can see them do it. This is always doable, even if 3rd billing companies handle the affiliate tracking and payouts.
The problem with software-internal shave functions is that you simply can not SEE it from the outside, except by doing a bunch of real test signups yourself and I am sure that even there are ways to try to avoid shaving those tests of yours.
The only way to integrate shaving into nats by anyone other than us is rewriting their own versions of around 10 of our scripts, if not more. People will not do that, they would just write their own to begin with.