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acfou

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About acfou

independent ad fraud researcher

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    Comment #39731811

    It won't be different from any of the other silicon valley companies that went public based on numbers inflated by click fraud, but it may be one of the few that gets caught for it…

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    Comment #37741049

    This is an incorrect conclusion

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    Comment #35942856

    how did you know?

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    Comment #34302711

    yes, ads can be GDPR compliant. Consider search ads. They are shown based on the keywords being searched by the user, no data collection needed for search ads to work really well.

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    Comment #34302696

    agree https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/look-back-evolution-bots-frau...

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    Comment #26869361

    multiple security firms independently found the same too

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    Comment #25630391

    the adops community helps me to understand the mechanics and when i don't know something I usually turn to that community to ask questions. most are helpful, but a few anonymous on…

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    Comment #25630369

    thank you!

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    Comment #25626152

    you are right; some of the biggest brands need to do the least advertising

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    Comment #25625421

    this is a really good episode, worth a listen

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    Comment #25625412

    great summary

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    Comment #25512197

    hi indymike, what extension in chrome was causing the ad fraud?

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    Comment #12942895

    Hi, I have helped many publishers that have been falsely accused of ad fraud due to bad measurements by the fraud detection companies. But also check to make sure your wordpress in…

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    Comment #7966534

    see the charts from Incapsula in this article which show a third of the bots are not executing javascript https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140623200557-8...