Originally Posted by sharphead

youll soon find out that protect-x is overloaded and slow as fucking hell. Just try logging into their site and trying to refresh your stats every once in awhile.

How it works is it is php code that url fopens a image from the main site and places it on your server. It also embeds a clickable link that is not visible. If a bot clicks it, is assumes it's a bad hit since no human could "click" it. That's the basis of the system essentially. Why are bot hits bad? Well it essentially "steals" your traffic from you, because your trade script will return real visitors back to the site who's sending "bots" to you, you get screwed, they get real visitors and your site gets infected with trading out bots to other trade partners, who if they detect you, will kill your trade and blacklist you.

I stopped using it a long time ago - the system is way too damn slow for my liking, despite repeated requests for them to upgrade their servers, and everyone who trades there is parafuckingnoid of rogue traders, so finding trades with open sign up forms is next to impossible - and like everything else, good luck contacting anyone for a trade.