Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by stiray on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:22PM (#24411981)

Naah, just install adnauseum [1] and thank advertisers for forcing you to use adblocker. Let them pay for all the manace they couse to you and help ad networks to build completely wrong profile on you.

[1] https://adnauseam.io/

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by nix23 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:29PM (#24412060)

Hehe yes since i installed adnauseum i love ad's...and i love that they have to pay for it, atm at 5732$ ;)

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by mike_d on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:52PM (#24412332)

Make sure you keep all your software up to date. Malvertising is pretty common, and adnauseum does a great job at firing payloads on your machine.

It is the equivalent of installing an app that silently opens every attachment that is emailed to you.

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by beervirus on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:59PM (#24412448)

They deny this, but I have no idea how accurate the denial is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-adnauseams-...

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by Nextgrid on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:11AM (#24421894)

They should make it so that it talks to a VM (with no persistent storage) and sends the links to be opened to it (with the current browser's context such as cookies, etc so attribution still works).

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by nix23 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:27PM (#24414313)

Had the same idea, but my OS is so uncommon that malware probably does not exist (if it's not a targeted attack).

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