ironbull
Active Member
Hi,
I would like to know how do spy tools actually work from behind. I know it's a tricky question and not a lot of people know about this but I hope I can get a good answer from someone in the business who is willing to share some information.
My guess is that the best ones make use of botnets, but not really sure. Nothing to do with IPs, User Agents, Browsers or anything like that. They can mimic that behavior from what I have seen. And it's impossible to do it manually, so there must be a lot of automation in the scraping process.
I mean, how can a spy tool be able to:
- Visit a site/app which has an ad network on it
- Click all over around/Refresh the screen to come up with different ads/landers
- Being able to detect the campaign URL
- Being able to detect the lander URL
- Click all over around, inside the lander
- Being able to detect the click URL
- Being able to detect the following redirects to the offer
And do it on a daily basis in a lot of sites/apps. Plus being able to scrape from different countries. Plus being able to scrape from different carriers. Plus being able to scrape from different devices.
If someone has valuable information, feel free to send me a PM if you don't want to share it in public.
Thanks
I would like to know how do spy tools actually work from behind. I know it's a tricky question and not a lot of people know about this but I hope I can get a good answer from someone in the business who is willing to share some information.
My guess is that the best ones make use of botnets, but not really sure. Nothing to do with IPs, User Agents, Browsers or anything like that. They can mimic that behavior from what I have seen. And it's impossible to do it manually, so there must be a lot of automation in the scraping process.
I mean, how can a spy tool be able to:
- Visit a site/app which has an ad network on it
- Click all over around/Refresh the screen to come up with different ads/landers
- Being able to detect the campaign URL
- Being able to detect the lander URL
- Click all over around, inside the lander
- Being able to detect the click URL
- Being able to detect the following redirects to the offer
And do it on a daily basis in a lot of sites/apps. Plus being able to scrape from different countries. Plus being able to scrape from different carriers. Plus being able to scrape from different devices.
If someone has valuable information, feel free to send me a PM if you don't want to share it in public.
Thanks