Clearing Browser History to Get More Clicks!

[acilegnaj]

Script URL: http://www.500dollarlinks.com/contests/ ... /index.php
Version of script: 2.1.1
Hosting company: Interserver.Net
URL of phpinfo.php: 7
URL of session_test.php:
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There is a issue with this script. Not sure if it was corrected in the newer version.

The issue is: When settings are set to only count 1 unique click every 24 hours, I found that a user can simply clear their browser's history to get more clicks. At least when they are using FireFox.

[Klemen]

That's because clearing history also clears cookies and CCount relies on cookies to count unique clicks.

Unfortunately, there's no reliable simple way around it. If you want to count clicks more reliably you would have to come up with a more complex and multi-source way of tracking uniques.

[acilegnaj]

Hello,

Instead of tracking clicks using cookies, how about the IP address ONLY?

How hard or easy would it be to modify the script to allow this feature?

Angelica J.

[Klemen]

You'd have to completely rewrite it and use a database such as MySQL.

Note that IP tracking is very unreliable (most client IPs are dynamic and change over time) and also very easy to circumvent.

[acilegnaj]

Hello,

Thanks for the information. I have decided not to modify the script. Well, I already added the feature which allows clicks to have a start and stop period. I think that's enough at least for now.

Regards,
Angelica J.

[Rablo]

Better not to modify it in my opinion