Re:Clickbait and Traffic Laundering: How Ad Tech Is Destroyi...
by jamiequint on Friday June 03, 2016 @03:51PM
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This is the traffic laundering part. From the article:
"visitors are sent to low-end websites. But if you happen to be of high value to the ad tech industry (based on your IP), you’ll be redirected through a loop of various shell websites, spending a fraction of a second on each, in order to increase the apparent quality of these websites’ audience."
"visitors are sent to low-end websites. But if you happen to be of high value to the ad tech industry (based on your IP), you’ll be redirected through a loop of various shell websites, spending a fraction of a second on each, in order to increase the apparent quality of these websites’ audience."