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Re:Things That Are Trying To Kill Display Ads by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:05AM (#16008244)
> 1 in 5 ad-serving websites are visited exclusively by fraud bots

seriously?? that's surely impossible?

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Re:Things That Are Trying To Kill Display Ads by philipodonnell on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:22AM (#16008686)
I think this means that 1 in 5 pages hosting a third party ad network has no relevant content for a legitimate web user, so visits to that site must be by bots. Not saying that is what happens, just a way of interpreting it in a way that is not impossible...
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