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> we found tons of bots that traced to your Amazon affiliate account This suggest a trivial fix for the problem on Pinterest's side, doesn't it?
by huhtenberg 15y ago
> we found tons of bots that traced to your Amazon affiliate account
This suggest a trivial fix for the problem on Pinterest's side, doesn't it?
- TomAnthony 15y agoI think he is using URL shorteners or custom URLs that looks like a blog but are a redirect to an affiliate URL. Now they'd have to start examining the URLs in detail, which is a lot harder. Especially if he cloaks for access that looks to be coming from Pinterest themselves.
- GoodIntentions 15y agoIf I were tasked with detecting these, nothing would run from a Pinterest IP address. Use throwaway VPS hosts on different blocks and replace them regularly. For that matter if I were tasked with posting this spam, I'd do the same...