Re:Dark social traffic in the mobile app era
by ncw33 on Monday December 08, 2014 @05:15AM
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So basically, lots of big publishers are really upset that they don't know where their traffic is coming from. They were previously uncategorised because clicking on links from the Facebook app doesn't add a Referer.
Then someone noticed that the Facebook app sets User-Agent to something very obviously Facebook-y, and this is the "breakthrough" in tracking Facebook clicks.
Then someone noticed that the Facebook app sets User-Agent to something very obviously Facebook-y, and this is the "breakthrough" in tracking Facebook clicks.