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Originally Posted by holograph
great idea. but since you shared it you may need to adjust the strategy later on, especially when more sites integrate it. bot runners may be able to come around this somehow
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I bet they will, i have other catcher for the botter on my sites whichc i dont post here, i had 70% bot traffic from traffic buying sites like trafficholder,exoclick,ero-advertising with my filter, with blocking bad source, i think i now only have under 10% of my traffic that is zombies.
The problem can't be solved in one day, i did alot of stats analyze to be able to block the bad sources, it make me sad that some of the big company like Exoclick, Ero-Advertising have lot of zombie traffic... Some of the site that are sending over 60% botnet traffic are even ''featured'' some times... I'm not even pro webmaster or pro technician guy and i was able to catch on my first day of stats analyzing from exoclick traffic over 5 different sources whicih send ALOT of bot traffic.. I do honestly think that some people are making thousand's of dollars every day from bot traffic...
Any big ads company that want to catch bot traffic can do it very easily. ( for site which send over 50% ) but, the real truth is that i highly DOUBT they want to catch them. As long as they make traffic look like real, they don't care and are happy to let them send their traffic so they can continue to advertise thing like ''OVER 5 BILLION AD IMPRESSION''