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Could it just be a badly written search spider? The ad is simply an anchor tag around an image. If you didn't filter it out specifically, you would just "clic
by loumf 14y ago
Could it just be a badly written search spider? The ad is simply an anchor tag around an image. If you didn't filter it out specifically, you would just "click" it to get to another page.
- angry-hacker 14y agoI was thinking about it too... but then again why don't we hear the same complain from other advertisers?
- thlt 14y agoI didn't write an own analytic program but can confirm that 80% of clicks from my Facebook ads don't show up on my GoSquared dashboard.
- saurik 14y agoWhen you build an advertisement network, you end up spending a bunch of time figuring out how to isolate these fake clicks and verify that they are not real. As an example, the IP addresses running the bots are going to be clicking "way too many ads to be a human".
- tectonic 14y agoPossibly, but aren't these ads only shown to logged in users?
- wildmXranat 14y agoIf FB is not smart enough to discern curl/wget/whatever_crawler_socket_call used from genuine in browser click then the argument is already won. Hell, you could write an army of Selenium Firefox/Chrome bots to drive up costs of ad competitors, randomise the host machines, etc... but it's still hard to believe that FB anti fraud measures can't figure it out. To me, something is off, whether with FB or these guys.
- wildmXranat 14y agoIf FB is not smart enough to discern curl/wget/whatever_crawler_socket_call used from genuine in browser click then the argument is already won. Hell, you could write an army of Selenium Firefox/Chrome bots to drive up costs of ad competitors, randomise the host machines, etc... but it's still hard to believe that FB anti fraud measures can't figure it out. To me, something is off, whether with FB or these guys.