Graybeard
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12-letter domains. The ad fraud scheme Sadbottrue |
>>>What is the infrastructure for generating artificial traffic?
In order to simulate a web audience, you need 3 components.
1. Database of simulating devices, browsers, and users.
2. Software to manage the algorithms of botnet activity.
3. Rented proxy servers around the world, used to simulate users from more than one hundred countries.
The black market of proxy servers is the most important part of the ad fraud infrastructure. It has long been a global and accessible for everyone.
These parts are common to all ad fraud schemes. But for verification of artificial traffic, a credible source is needed. A huge audience can not appear suddenly from nowhere. We have already written how social traffic is used as an imitation of a fast recruitment of the audience. Also for this, search engines are often used, primarily Google. <<<
So if you see those masked traffic source names from ad network buys ... Guess what?
>>>What is the infrastructure for generating artificial traffic?
In order to simulate a web audience, you need 3 components.
1. Database of simulating devices, browsers, and users.
2. Software to manage the algorithms of botnet activity.
3. Rented proxy servers around the world, used to simulate users from more than one hundred countries.
The black market of proxy servers is the most important part of the ad fraud infrastructure. It has long been a global and accessible for everyone.
These parts are common to all ad fraud schemes. But for verification of artificial traffic, a credible source is needed. A huge audience can not appear suddenly from nowhere. We have already written how social traffic is used as an imitation of a fast recruitment of the audience. Also for this, search engines are often used, primarily Google. <<<
So if you see those masked traffic source names from ad network buys ... Guess what?