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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by logn on Monday July 30, 2012 @03:49PM (#4314316)
could you just add a mouse-over event to each ad that sets an isHuman flag?
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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by ZachPruckowski on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:08PM (#4314415)
That would break screenreaders, some touchscreen mobile devices, and probably other things I'm not thinking of.
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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by slig on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:03PM (#4314393)
IIRC, years ago, Google changed one parameter of it's AdSense click url based on the number of times the user hovered the ad.
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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by nerdo on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:09PM (#4314418)
The bot could just fire the mouseover event.
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