>> ^joedirt:
did you notice their embed script pulls up about:blank
which makes me think they are also pulling up other junk, unless the about:blank is the embed blocking when no HTTP Referrer is found.Interesting and it sucks. I wished sites would stop tracking us!

did you notice their embed script pulls up about:blank
which makes me think they are also pulling up other junk, unless the about:blank is the embed blocking when no HTTP Referrer is found.

Also, you are not much of a nerd if you have referrers enabled and can't use google to figure out what they are.

Err, I could be.. although I'm not sure how to block/unblock either way.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Sounds like the thing ant posted to ST about:
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Is-funnyordie-blocking-no-referrers

Are you blocking referrer info in your browser?

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
White screen.. come to think of it, no funnyordie embeds seem to be working at all (for me)

If anyone else is experiencing the same, just go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vciJ2VYHYV4

Sounds like the thing ant posted to ST about:
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Is-funnyordie-blocking-no-referrers

Are you blocking referrer info in your browser?

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
White screen.. come to think of it, no funnyordie embeds seem to be working at all (for me)

If anyone else is experiencing the same, just go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vciJ2VYHYV4

>> ^gwiz665:
I don't even know what that is.. and I'm a nerd.

>> ^EndAll:
Blank screen for me.. link?


Same here, but it was because referrers blocked.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'kith, bad, doctor, dave, foley, referrals' to 'kith, bad, doctor, dave foley, referrals, kids in the hall' - edited by lucky760

Bill Kristol is very ignorant on military healthcare. As a former soldier during peace time I have to say the health care sucked. No choice whatsoever!! I was a paratrooper so I got injured a lot and have plenty of experience with military medicine hackery. Had to deal with wait times, referrals and all that crap. So yeah, I prefer my insurance provided civilian health care.

Weird, no embedded video showing when disabled referrers.

Thanks for the awesome translation!!!

j'veux Tellier sur mon ipod
(I want Tellier on my ipod)
Sorry I don't know who is Tellier

I think this might refer to Sébastien Tellier

j'veux etre dans l'top de justice
I want to be in the justice top (I don't get the meaning of this phrase, maybe just for the rhyme)

Possible referral to french electronic music group Justice?
(as in "top of their playlist" or even "on top of them" referring to sex?

All your IP are belong to me..

Not really. It's not a big deal really, most site that have tracking images at the bottom (like sitemeter) you can you see the traffic and all the stuff your browsers expose (IP, http referrer, UID, OS, etc).

Impressive! The real time referral searches are interesting - "sexy ants girl". WTF?!

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^I think the unique views are only counting logged in users. Most of these views came from anonymous google referrals

Ok, obviously charging for submissions or comments is bad idea. Some type of power point things might work (put up a paypal and have some cheap exchange rate).

You really should also look at all those awful facebook type games and other webpage games that you get bonuses by doing things like registering at some coupon page or those silly things, they must make referral money.

I really think the sift needs more ads mixed in as videos (at least for non-logged in users). I think you should have a donation link up there one week a month.

The problem is always getting past the dead zone of a $30/month level of traffic and when you have enough to make a profit. I don't think digg and other stuff will work, more traffic makes the problem worse. Is it more the dedicated server expenses or the traffic or is it 50/50?

I think you should turn of the filters and some features if it saves a lot on CPUs (not that down sizing is a good idea, but more efficient??) Or even a IP based bandwidth quota that probably would only effect a few people, and just a static page that says come back in 4 hours..

Every 10th video you click on the expand twistie and you get ajax ad frame instead with a SKIP>> thing. It's not that annoying and people can be charter if they care. I've always thought charter was too pricey.. I just don't know the sweet spot.

Anyways, I think the internet ad $$$ is going to get worse (but then again Amazon is the only ones making money). So I thinking it's like US dependence upon oil.


Do you think doubling the traffic will help? Doubling the ad clicks? Or just reducing costs and living off of donations and charter.

I think you should go look at the early fark model or g00ns forums and how they got over the 'hump'. (But that was in good economic times).

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About 17% would be regular users if Google Analytics is to be believed. That's how many don't come to the site via a search engine or referral in a given month.

I'd be the first to admit that I don't know how to control this flow. at all. I've given up trying. The Sift is what it is.