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Originally Posted by LeRoy
So program owners have the ability to manipulate the stats?
Can you give us examples of what you've found? Or the last program that you shut off for shaving? How were they doing it exactly?
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All someone has to do is write a custom Apache module to siphon off some of the traffic.
do (XX% of the time) {
if (request has nats code in url) {
remove it
}
It's not rocket science. Any programmer with knowledge of C can probably do it in under an hour. Apache is open source. There is no need to even touch NATS to shave.
Hell you can probably even do it in an nginx config without even writing an modules.
There is nothing that can be done about it. It has nothing to do with NATS as the request has already been changed before it even gets to them.
If you can't trust a program maybe you shouldn't do business with them.
The CCBill model is much more secure since the affiliates send it to CCBill and then they send it to the program.
P.S., no I will not write a script to do this for you so don't even bother asking.