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Originally Posted by paradoxymoron  AP: Part of the reason I disbelieve your statement that these people don't believe what they're saying is because of your misinformation regarding specifics like this. You seem to be saying that if people visit these sites, the owners of the site gets paid money from their "host" (ISP, I assume). Because these ISP's are paying these sites, other people's internet costs go up. This makes absolutely no sense. ISP's don't pay sites for getting visitors to go to the site. There's no incentive to do so. The only paying method that I've seen, and I haven't seen everything, is where you get paid based on clicking ads.
If this is the kind of information you gleaned from the show, I'm doubting the show's basis in fact or your particular interpretation of what you saw. | I don't know how to explain it any better then I have. You are free to not believe me and watch the special itself, and perhaps their explination of how it works will help you to understand it...
I know myself, I'd never heard of visitor counters that paid site owners...Like you, I'd only heard about ad clicker useage. The hosts they use, provide the visitor clicker, to help cut down the costs for the site owner similar to the ad clicker. Just based off of visitors though. But the sites are so popular, that they're making a profit from so many visitors. So, they are making money from their hosts.
Strange but true.
Like I said...If it wasn't for the way our society loves a good conspiracy, they'd not be making money off of our own gullibility. Because in the end, it's the hosts who charge the consumers to make up that loss...And the biggest web space providers are Charter, AOL/Yahoo, and I forgot MSN.
Oh, and the incentive would be a pretty good one I'd think...The more people that are visiting the site, encourages those people to set up a site themselves, using the very hosts and programming materials that the site thier visiting are using.
Of course, I'm a cheap bugger myself....When I set up my sites, I used free hosting rather then go for the paid package options. 
Last edited by AlicornsPrayer; 05-03-2008 at 04:56 PM.
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