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Don't advertisers need to be able to run JavaScript on the page to ensure the page hit was actually seen by a user? Otherwise, I could HTTP GET "foo.png" all da
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
Don't advertisers need to be able to run JavaScript on the page to ensure the page hit was actually seen by a user? Otherwise, I could HTTP GET "foo.png" all day. The advertiser could be paying big dollars, and the website serving the ad could tell the ad company "yeah, we showed foo.png 10,000" times without having a way to verify it.
- marcosdumay 7y agoYou can easily see how many people coming from that ad brought your product. Why would you care about the origin statistics?
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoThe Origin header can be spoofed. The point is, if advertisers don't have confidence the number of time an ad is shown is legit, then the site hosting the ad has all the power.
- Nextgrid 7y agoPrint ads don’t seem to care about how many times the ad had been seen, they just pay for the ad to be there for X amount of times or for Y issues of that particular magazine. Why can’t web ads be the same? “Pay X to have your banner here for a week”