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Re:Reddit's Long, Rocky Road to an Initial Public Offering
on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:57PM (#39731811)
It won't be different from any of the other silicon valley companies that went public based on numbers inflated by click fraud, but it may be one of the few that gets caught for it.
Re:Apple's iCloud Private Relay being abused in $65M ad fraud (2022)
on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:02PM (#37741049)
This is an incorrect conclusion
Re:47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022
on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:06PM (#35942856)
how did you know?
Re:Can Ads Be GDPR Compliant?
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:25PM (#34302711)
yes, ads can be GDPR compliant. Consider search ads. They are shown based on the keywords being searched by the user, no data collection needed for search ads to work really well.
Re:Can Ads Be GDPR Compliant?
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:23PM (#34302696)
Re:Millions of web surfers are being targeted by a single malvertising...
on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:22PM (#26869361)
multiple security firms independently found the same too
Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:19AM (#25630391)
the adops community helps me to understand the mechanics and when i don't know something I usually turn to that community to ask questions.
most are helpful, but a few anonymous ones spend their time making polls that make fun of me; but that's OK, I know it comes with the territory
Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:17AM (#25630369)
thank you!
Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:07PM (#25626152)
you are right; some of the biggest brands need to do the least advertising
Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:29PM (#25625421)
this is a really good episode, worth a listen
Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:28PM (#25625412)
great summary
Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech
on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:36PM (#25512197)
hi indymike, what extension in chrome was causing the ad fraud?
Re:Ask HN: Falsely accused of ad fraud; what do do?
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:44AM (#12942895)
Hi, I have helped many publishers that have been falsely accused of ad fraud due to bad measurements by the fraud detection companies. But also check to make sure your wordpress installation hasn't been compromised behind the scenes with malware that might actually be generating fake ad impressions. If you need further help, please reach out to me Augustine Fou (firstname . last name [at] gmail )
Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding
on Monday June 30, 2014 @02:05PM (#7966534)
see the charts from Incapsula in this article which show a third of the bots are not executing javascript
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140623200557-8...