Yeah, its loooking likely, ive been following this with good reason... As you mentioned above:
google will be able to match your clicking habits to your SteamID and know who you really are. And, no doubt they'll probably be doing this: http://www.sidesteal.com/adreach.pdf I have been working on this since the start of the year, I was going to send a proposal to Valve - but looks like Google are gonna get in there first. It's not the complete PDF, but it gives you the idea of where we were heading. I did run into larger obstacles, but the reason i got TF2 servers in the begining was to explore this avenue. I proved it worked, we had a delievery system where server admins could sign up, and we auto ftp the plugin we use to show the ads, ftp the ads in, change/update the ads on a per map basis in case an advertisers needed to change an ad campaign - all wothout the server admin doing a thing - apart from a manual server restart, everything else was automatic. The plugin generated a log file we monitored, and as long as our server could routinely access the log we could determine the earnings for that server owner - publisher and advertiser statistics basically. I bet you any cash, this is what Google are gonna head towards. Oh well, little guy gets stamped on again. I knew I shouldnt have sent my partner the pdf through gmail...... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
