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  Dave

  4 years ago

  I don't think the guys at the Googleplex are that worried about a few gigabytes - they probably throw a few GB around every minute. :)
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  Elliott Bäck

  4 years ago

  What about the people visiting your site? It's 2.5kb extra per page for your visitors to load!
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  Dave

  4 years ago

  Well, I usually have at least 20-50kb of images... 2.5kb/page on 56k dialup = about 1/3 of a second... :P
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  Zen

  4 years ago

  I was just looking at that. There's no file dependencies so you could probably run the code locally.. although that's a no no. It's interesting none the less.
  
  It would definately alter them tracking the amount of impressions you create and would probably flag you real good when clicked.
  
  It seems each click is routed via the google syndicate with your Client ID the advertised site and an encoded bit called "ai" which contains the time, date and location info (among other stuff?)
  
  That's how they track who's clicking from where and when (and what you had for dinner).
  
  Other than this or that the codes pretty easy to understand and it'd be easy to make scripts that hook the variables, I think there's already a few developers doing this.
  
  I wonder where the line is with that, since you're not modifing the code directly is it still against the TOS?
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  Nishit Chokhawala

  7 months ago

  Dont be surprised !!.. this method is used for faster data transfer,,
  
  its called minified javascript.. and tools availble for it !!
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