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		<title>Clickbank we have a problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clickbank is a large advertiser that is mainly known for informational products such as ebooks. If you look around on their website you find a lot of webmaster related products but also products of other niches such as Business to Business and Money &#038; Employment. The interesting part (for us) begins when we take a look at their requirements for pages, or better thank you pages, that sell Clickbank products.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clickbank is a large advertiser that is mainly known for informational products such as ebooks. If you look around on their <a href="http://www.clickbank.com/buy_products.htm">website</a> you find a lot of webmaster related products but also products of other niches such as Business to Business and Money &#038; Employment. The interesting part (for us) begins when we take a look at their requirements for pages, or better thank you pages, that sell Clickbank products.</p>
<p>The requirement is that a thank you page has to be created on the website that is selling the product which will be displayed after the purchase has been made. Many Clickbank webmasters put download information of their products on this page to make it as easy as possible for their customers to download the product once the purchase has been made.</p>
<p>Guess what happens if you search for terms that have to be on those pages on Google ? Right, hundreds of Thank you Clickbank pages appear that can be used to grab the product without purchasing it. This is illegal and I&#8217;m only writing about it as an informational article. </p>
<p><span id="more-2629"></span>I add some tips on securing the pages at the end as well.  Most Thank You pages will contain the following or a similar sentence:</p>
<blockquote><p>Please Note: Your credit card will be billed by &#8220;CLKBANK*COM&#8221;. The name &#8220;CLKBANK*COM&#8221;will appear on your credit card statement.</p></blockquote>
<p>A search for Clkbank is however not enough and we need to find another phrase that is on most of those pages, and that one is &#8220;right click&#8221;. Searching for clkbank right click reveals hundreds of product pages that offer the product as a download after making the purchase. You could try other phrases such as &#8220;Clkbank thank you&#8221; for instance.</p>
<p>And here is how you could try and stop this. I&#8217;m not a Clickbank affiliate and do not know if Clickbank offers a better way of protecting those pages. The first thing that comes to my mind is add a referrer check using simply htaccess to those pages. If the page before opening this was not on the same domain do not display it. </p>
<p>This would get rid of most users from Google because this is obviously not the correct previous page which should be the Buy page instead. This could be countered by Referrer spoofing but you probably get rid of the majority of downloaders this way.</p>
<p>The only other way to make it more secure would be to create a unique password for each purchaser and send it to his registered email account with a link to a website where he could download the product after logging in. This is a bit harder to code and puts additional burden on the buyer but secures the product.</p>

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		<title>Save Flash Games on your hard drive</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/save-flash-games-on-your-hard-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flash games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I like to play flash games from time to time and enjoy some tremendously. It happens that websites that offer flash games are not available at the time that you want to play the game which is why I would like to explain how you can easily save flash games  on your hard drive to play them without an Internet connection.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to admit that I like to play flash games from time to time and enjoy some tremendously. It happens that websites that offer flash games are not available at the time that you want to play the game which is why I would like to explain how you can easily save flash games  on your hard drive to play them without an Internet connection.</p>
<p>Visit a website that displays a flash game on its website. Right-click a free area of that page and select View Page Source from the right-click menu. You could alternatively click on View > Page Source in <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox/">Firefox</a>. <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/internet-explorer/">Internet Explorer</a> uses right-click and select View Source while <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/category/browsing/opera/">Opera</a> users right-click and select Source.</p>
<p>Search that source for a url that ends with the swf file extension (search for the term .swf). This is the location of the flash game on the server. Copy that address and paste it into the browser window again. The flash game should load just fine. Go to File > Save Page As in Firefox and the flash game should be saved on your hard drive.</p>
<p><span id="more-2500"></span>Drop the file into your favorite browser to play the game. To make it easier you could assign a software to swf files which would have the result that you only need to double-click the flash games to start them. To do that right-click the file and select properties from the menu.</p>
<p>Now click on the change button and select your main browser as the program to open swf files with. I have created a small video that explains the whole process.</p>
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