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Would it be possible for attackers/fraudsters to just set up "proxy farms" of real hardware that provide the device details for attestation? It would make bots
by ceroxylon 3y ago
Would it be possible for attackers/fraudsters to just set up "proxy farms" of real hardware that provide the device details for attestation? It would make bots less efficient but surely the incentive for ad fraud would still exist and adaptations would be made.
- alexpotato 3y agoThis comment made me think of the videos of scammers with racks upon racks of cheap cell phones. They are all legitimate phones and labor is cheap so it's easier to just do that rather than try to create script to click on ads etc.
- tornato7 3y agoYes, but in theory if suspicious behavior was detected those devices could be permanently blacklisted from a website, making the investment challenging. If WEI goes through we'll probably see cheap PCs popping up on eBay that are unable to access certain websites.
- yomlica8 3y agoYou thought having your google account banned was bad now, wait until they ban all associated hardware with a heuristic routine and most of the web doesn't work for you anymore. That should really cut down on the account support requests they didn't want to deal with.
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