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Same author created Ad Nauseum to click on every ad you encounter as opposed to selectively blocking them http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/10/06/helen-ni
by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Same author created Ad Nauseum to click on every ad you encounter as opposed to selectively blocking them http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/10/06/helen-nissenbaum-on-ad-nauseum-resistance-through-obfuscation-and-weapons-of-the-weak/ http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/10/06/helen-nissenba...
Obfuscation won't slow down data scientists. To see this in action open your gmail account and notice there's (likely) no spam in your primary inbox. Those spammers spend considerable resources to obfuscate themselves from Google's filters yet still fail.
- WmyEE0UsWAwC2i 11y agoBut what if the user would "read" the spam? Of course "fake behavior" could be dected if you have known real behaviour to compare it to.That also means that it is possible to simulate "real behavior" given the relevant data. Whis is a win-win situtation, ad networks get to fight fake traffic, fake traffic becomes indistiguishable from real human trafic.