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For a while I worked in ads, and the specific team I was in put us in a position of being on both sides of this. We were tasked with monitoring advertisements f
by adsthrowaway99 3y ago
For a while I worked in ads, and the specific team I was in put us in a position of being on both sides of this. We were tasked with monitoring advertisements for fraud, which meant we both had to catch bot traffic, but also we had to check ads for scams/phishing/etc. So on the one hand we were trying to plug holes in our own bot detection for botnets trying to drive up impression numbers to get website operators paid more, but on the other hand we were trying to bypass bot detecting on the part of phishing page authors (who would do things like display a totally plausible e-commerce page if they think the ad viewer is a bot, but a bank of america phishing page if they think it's a real user).
- Avamander 3y ago> other hand we were trying to bypass bot detecting on the part of phishing page authors An approach I recently saw gated the phishing page behind a Google Account login page. User that was logged in wouldn't even notice the brief redirect. Scanners would just get stuck. I hope they've patched it by now though...
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoA coincidence of how I work with my browser profiles is that the browser (profile) that does most of my web browsing isn't logged into Google. It's nice to see that this has extra benefits:) Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go move my entire computing environment into a VM so that viruses will think they're being analyzed and refuse to run... (Kidding but also not)
- simcop2387 3y agoCheck out qubes os, run each app in it's own vm
- spondylosaurus 3y agoHa, I think we may have worked at the same company (or at least at competing companies)....