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I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
Sends a click to everything blocked in uBlock Origin.
>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average of $13.04 per faked view. Who on earth pays that kind of price to have someone watch their ad video? Serious question.
>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views.
I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
It was discovered years ago because:
* Their IP stack was acting like Linux[1]
* Their flash player said "I'm Linux"
* Their user agent said other things (random user agents)
* Their DNS traffic was going UK, but the hosts were coming out of the US
How is an ad buyer ever supposed to make an informed decision about how susceptible their chosen ad vendor is to fraud?
So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams. The bigger picture is virality. Nobody wants to watch your video with 100 views. Same video with 10M views, now everyone has to watch it. The music business has been doing this so much for so long that it's to the point where I automatically distrust everything that's "popular"…
Can you elaborate how the music business is cheating? Are they tampering with the charts?
I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
The problem is that while this might work great on a large scale, it breaks down at the individual level: why would I want all that ad-clicking activity associated with my account / cookie / IP?
I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
If you sell shoes, put up some shoe ads with an affiliate link, shouldn't that work good enough? You'd save millions by not being susceptible to attacks like the one in the article.
They are not in true ad fraud. Those guys are not in PPV, but in counter stuffing and "viralizing". They are former ebanners/ advmaker and cyberonix/telemaster ad fraud detection people.
Their ops model is this: they sell promo service for content producers; after upfront cost producers pay comission from monetisation revenue.