Avoid your ads from being ripped!

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Apr 7,2008

Heya! I’ve been hearing a lot about the ability to rewrite ads on other websites (not our own) by using proxy. This kinda makes me worried. Why? because, if someone use a proxy and surf my site, all ads on my site will be replaced by the proxy owner ads and thus give me no revenue at all.

So, I went on surfing browsing around using big established proxies which is not mine and surf my own sites. Surprised! all the ads on my site got replaced by the proxy’s ads! Seeing this makes me worried and I went to look for a solution.

Thankfully, a member from webproxytalk.com known as Dollar, gave me a set of IPs to be insert in htaccess file. Those IPs was a Data Centre IPs taken from proxy.org. By using them in your htaccess, almost all datacenter will be blocked from surfing your site. The great thing is, it block others server from accessing your site but didn’t block you from accessing them.

Below are the codes to be insert in your htaccess file.

IndexIgnore *
ServerSignature Off
<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
#Datacenter CIDR IP to block browser based proxies
deny from 66.6.96.0/19
deny from 62.112.128.0/19
deny from 72.51.32.0/20
deny from 74.200.192.0/18
deny from 74.200.218.36
deny from 74.86.240.106
deny from 74.86.0.0/16
deny from 67.15.77.224
deny from 66.98.131.103
deny from 67.159.0.0/18
deny from 72.167.0.0/16
deny from 66.96.192.0/18
deny from 67.159.0.0/18
deny from 66.90.64.0/18
deny from 72.232.0.0/16
deny from 208.100.0.0/18
deny from 208.131.128.0/19
deny from 66.98.128.0/17
deny from 64.85.128.0/19
deny from 64.85.160.0/20
deny from 38.0.0.0/8
deny from 198.77.14.0/23
deny from 207.10.224.0/20
deny from 83.170.64.0/18
deny from 208.53.128.0/18
deny from 12.158.188.0/22
deny from 64.131.83.136/29
deny from 208.75.248.0/21
deny from 75.126.0.0/16
deny from 72.232.0.0/16
deny from 77.240.0.0/20
deny from 91.84.0.0/15
deny from 85.234.128.0/19
deny from 193.37.152.0/24
deny from 66.232.96.0/19
deny from 62.193.224.0/20
deny from 62.193.236.0/24
deny from 62.193.192.0/18
deny from 78.40.224.0/21
deny from 64.22.64.0/18
deny from 72.232.210.0/24
deny from 72.36.128.0/17
deny from 10.0.0.0/8
deny from 10.237.44.144
deny from 64.191.0.0/17
deny from 64.72.112.0/20
deny from 209.85.0.0/17
deny from 69.57.160.0/19

allow from all
</LIMIT>

So, after placing this code into your htaccess file, you don’t have to worry about people ripping your ads and replacing with their own.