Re:Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:24PM
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That is entirely unclear (about the authorization) since people often want to present their side of the story in terms that they see as best, and having someone say "well you were doing <x>" where X is some evil thing.
As we (Blekko) get better at identifying and shutting down click fraud and other schemes to defraud advertisers a lot them end up being traced back to hosts in inexpensive hosting services. That is but one of many ways of having a machine on the Internet that generates cash for you. We ended up basically shutting out a couple of class Bs from an hosting service in the Ukraine for that reason, people can write us and get white-listed but in over 27,000 IP's not a single one was a legitimate user. Way too many people coming up with schemes to get some "free" extra cash.
As we (Blekko) get better at identifying and shutting down click fraud and other schemes to defraud advertisers a lot them end up being traced back to hosts in inexpensive hosting services. That is but one of many ways of having a machine on the Internet that generates cash for you. We ended up basically shutting out a couple of class Bs from an hosting service in the Ukraine for that reason, people can write us and get white-listed but in over 27,000 IP's not a single one was a legitimate user. Way too many people coming up with schemes to get some "free" extra cash.