Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend

Re:Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend by allwein on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @03:53PM (#4325240)

Here's another possibility that popped into my head while reading this article. What about browser prefetches? Is it possible that a browser, say Chrome, is prefetching linked pages and that prefetching is being detected by Facebook as an ad click?

I'll admit I know little to nothing about how prefetching works.

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Re:Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend by xentronium on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:59PM (#4325673)

If this worked like you think, bad things would happen. Think about all the "?action=delete" or "/logout" links spread all over the internet.

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Re:Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend by vampirechicken on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @07:13PM (#4326286)

Bad things deserve to happen to web app operators who do not protect delete and logout by putting them behind POST[1] request.

[1] pedantry - PUT, POST, DELETE implement it however you want. Just don't change database state using GET.

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Re:Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend by devdazed on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:24PM (#4325441)

This is an interesting theory.

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