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Note that in the third tutorial where the app "clicks" the ads the USER AGENT is changed to bot-like so it's not a hidden evil click-fraud app. The use of the a
by riklaunim 17y ago
Note that in the third tutorial where the app "clicks" the ads the USER AGENT is changed to bot-like so it's not a hidden evil click-fraud app. The use of the app is one of many possible (it also may not click them, just count how much adds shows up on certain pages etc.), and not all ads are contextual like Google Ads but randomly displayed from a pool of adds for a given page - so refreshing gets more data.
This tutorial shows whats possible with WebKit, which isn't possible with CURL :)
- mahmud 17y agoWhat is a "bot-like" user agent? Is there a list somewhere of user-agents excluded from advertising clickstreams? The networks can detect fraudulent clicks easily, it's the site owners who will have their accounts frozen.
- riklaunim 17y agoThey may get frozen accounts, but the ad publishers don't froze them just like that (everyone could paralyze ad publishing on sites they don't like) so if they see that "click" was made with "I'm a bot that click things" user agent they will detect "invalid" click, not sneaky fraud attempts :) (although someone may also use PyQt4 webkit apps as a fraud apps, but it's not the point of this code tutorials). It may be used in "bad" or "good" ways.