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Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by tomrod on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:58PM (#29619431)
This doesn't answer why the end product (the person receiving the ad) is exposed to anything but images and text, which was the question.

Step outside technical approach mode and look at it from the highest level possible -- why are end users ever given more than images and text, or, why are ads anything more than a very simple a href tag.

Spam detection and other protection of the ad platform should be done long before this information ever goes to the eyeball product owners.

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Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by tehlike on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:52PM (#29621683)
No - spam protection needs as many signals as possible, sadly.

You will have headless browsers simulating clicks and so on. This gets extremely hard over time fake, and the more signals there are, the easier it's to spot anomalies.

In a way, the thinking is - a malicious actor will get at least a few of those signals inorganic and ML can detect them...

"Long before the information ever goes to the eyeball" => wish it was true.

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