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Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Doe

by Sujan 9y ago

Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Does anyone understand what devices/users are actually going into this "funnel" and where they come from? Botnet? Junk traffic from porn sites? Iframes?

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Eridrus 9y ago
All of the above.
sogen 9y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/ad-fraud-online-methbot/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/ad-fraud-online-m...
- gowld 9y ago
  This is the real Artificial Human Intelligence
- Horatio9000 9y ago
  > "The Methbot is a beautiful simulacrum of a real browser. It's gotten better over time. And by better, I mean, a more perfect life-like copy," said White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany. Very interesting.
- pault 9y ago
  Damn, $5MM a day. Even if your network gets broken up after a few weeks that's still a massive win.
gowld 9y ago
why are porn sites "junk traffic"? the users eyeballs are still eyeballs
- cisanti 9y ago
  Not for the companies buying the ads, you need the ask the question from them.
- Sujan 9y ago
  Historically if you want to pay _lots_ of super cheap traffic, you get it from porn sites. Not the ones with monthly subscription, but the ones where each click leads you to a new domain with a 50/50 (or 95/5 depending on your "value" [US>Bulgaria, Mac>Linux, ...]) chance of landing on some scam site / ad.
tenaciousDaniel 9y ago
http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/botfraud-2017 http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/botfraud-2017