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I'm not sure what headers you're referring to, but it would be easy for a browser extension to open urls Ina way that would be indistinguishable from a user cl
by tempestn 3y ago
I'm not sure what headers you're referring to, but it would be easy for a browser extension to open urls Ina way that would be indistinguishable from a user click. That said, it should be fairly straightforward for ad networks to detect large numbers of clicks from a given device and treat it as bot traffic.
- gruez 3y ago>it would be easy for a browser extension to open urls Ina way that would be indistinguishable from a user click. If they actually opened the page as a tab and rendered it, it would be pretty convincing. However, they specifically decided only to send one XHR request, which is easy to detect because a bunch of behaviors associated with normal browsing (eg. loading css fonts, javascript) doesn't get executed.
- tempestn 3y agoYes, the way they've decided to do it, it would be easy to detect. But nothing would stop an extension from loading the initial page, loading any resources from it, etc., without displaying it to the user. (Not that many people would want to run such an extension, since it would slow their browsing for no benefit.)