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They absolutely do, they just don't realize. There are a lot of schemes for "laundering" where the ad ran. Aside from popunder/redirect shenanigans that were co
by ryan-c 9y ago
They absolutely do, they just don't realize. There are a lot of schemes for "laundering" where the ad ran. Aside from popunder/redirect shenanigans that were covered in the press recently, they can iframe a "legit" site (that they control or partner with) which then runs the ad. They may or may not bother to actually arrange the ad to be visible.
- dumbfounder 9y agoYeah it can happen, no doubt, but on a super high traffic site like the main video pirate site they are talking about I think they would stick out like a sore thumb if they were making millions. Or maybe I'm wrong.
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- ryan-c 9y agoYou're wrong :-(
- dumbfounder 9y agoSo you think one of the highest trafficked sites out there can run this fraud scheme and continue to make money out in the open? I think that sort of stuff works spread across hundreds of sites, but not on singular high traffic sites like the one mentioned in the article.
- user5994461 9y agoFYI for both of you. The site closed their stats after 2015 and moved to google analytics. Being a shady website is rarely an obstacle to using the same thing as everyone else.
- ryan-c 9y agoThey can run the laundering scheme with a rotation of however many decoy sites as they like. Making one site look like hundreds is not hard.
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- leetbulb 9y agoOne of our network's primary goals is to maintain a sizable collection of exclusive and AOR offers, including adult. Doing so successfully for 10 years, we're considered "top-tier" by our publishers and advertiser and are able to offer very competitive payouts. In order to accomplish this, we've filtered and pruned away publishers of the sort. EDIT: Just realized OP is taking about incent stuff for hosting sites. We, and most "reputable" ad networks 100% disallow incent traffic and have a zero-tolerance policy.