How to bypass cloaking in PPS traffic to fully analyze landing pages?

[ProfyHunter]

While monitoring competitors in the PPC igaming vertical, I often run into the usual issue — their white page shows up when accessing tracking links directly. Pretty standard — you're being filtered out by cloaking.


Now, with some basic tools like user-agent spoofing, referrer tweaking, mobile emulation, etc., I can often reveal the actual landing page being served to real users. So far so good.

However, here's the catch:
I can't interact with the real landing page.
In most cases, I’m blocked from:

• clicking through funnels,
• triggering redirects,
• seeing which brand or GEO the offer leads to,
• detecting the partner ID or postbacks.

This makes it nearly impossible to reverse-engineer the full flow or understand what exact offers are being promoted — especially when cloakers are aggressive.

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So I’m looking for insights from more technical folks here:

• Are there proven ways to emulate full user behavior (cookies, mouse moves, session depth) and pass through cloaking to land on the functional page?
• Has anyone had success using headless browsers with proxy rotation and interaction scripts (e.g., Puppeteer + stealth plugins)?
• Are there any tools/services that let you capture full session flows — including redirects, JS-rendered elements, and endpoint data?

 

[ProfyHunter]

UPD: Found a solution!
Just wanted to share a quick follow-up — I managed to bypass cloaking for a few PPS partners currently running traffic on AU (Australia).


Here’s what worked:


️ I used OctoBrowser (light plan) with a solid residential proxy (AU IP). After properly warming up the cookies and letting the profiles idle a bit, most casino-related keywords like online casino, free spins, etc. started triggering the real landing pages.


In some cases, I was also able to hit the final offer page via direct URLs — bypassing part of the redirect logic, probably because of a fallback mechanism in the cloaker.

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Bonus: Crowd-manipulation tactic


You can scale this method to monitor your rivals and see new options for listing on Google page

This could help shift the conversion queue or slow down competitor payout cycles, depending on how tightly they monitor performance KPIs.


Obviously, this isn’t a long-term strategy and should be tested cautiously — but in some verticals, it buys you positioning time.

 

[Graybeard]

If you actually knew what you were doing, you wouldn’t need half these workarounds.

Let’s be honest: a smart advertiser could just rotate a dynamic token in the referral URL and update it daily via script. No valid token? White page. Game over.

This cat-and-mouse routine will eat up most of your productive time. So who really wins playing that game?

As long as advertisers stay blind and don’t implement basic request validation, you’ll keep slipping through. But that’s a reflection of their oversight --and not your brilliance.