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> I'm at 53MB downloaded and 5559 requests. That was not advertisement, but malware. It is probably running DDos attack on some website. We should block that.

• archon810 10y ago
  Did you look at the pings it was sending to its stats servers? It's not malware, some evil assholes actually created this VPAID concept with its players, trackers, and garbage performance.
  • jkot 10y ago
    If it quacks like a duck...
    • archon810 10y ago
      This logic doesn't make sense. If an advertiser willingly pings itself to a ridiculous degree does not mean it's a conspiracy to bring a server (its own?) down.
      • jkot 10y ago
        If something hijacks your computer and uses excesive resources, you should assume it has hostile intentions. It is not your job to inspect packet to find out what is going on.
        • lmm 10y ago
          It is worth distinguishing between actual malice and mere incompetence, and handling them differently.
• mrweasel 10y ago
  >That was not advertisement, but malware. I doubt it. It more likely that someone wants to know how long the reader/users of a page are exposed to their ads. Some idiot savant then figured "Hey, we'll play a video and download the bits in chucks. Then we know how much of the videos was played, and that's the amount of time they spend on the page."
  • jarnix 10y ago
    It's just that the advertiser, the agency, the ad network, another ad network, and another agency are tracking the time that you are watching the video. Plus, sometimes, they track every second or the code is really dirty and does this kind of crazy number of http (tracking) requests. 5000 requests is above the average though :) But I saw recently an ad like that, and it was like 100% of my surf on a website.
• Mikushi 10y ago
  That's actually par for the course for most VPAID stuff out there, specially the infinite looping kind.