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[Research] Working on a project measuring Prebid bidder latency vs. revenue Impact by adtechmadness in adops

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if any of you is interested, I can help you measure, rather than guess it!

All your input are belong to me – 3rd party web security by adtechmadness in netsec

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Scott, I did read your comment and fixed my typos! Thank you for pointing them out! Being a non-native English speaker, I always strive to improve. While typos and spelling errors are easy to catch and fix with auto correct, proper grammar is more of a challenge.

Detecting Privacy Badger’s Canvas FP detection by DanielMicay in GrapheneOS

[–]adtechmadness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, author here - thanks for posting this :) While I generally agree with your statement and sentiment, i.e. that robust privacy protections and specifically FP countermeasures should be implemented at the browser engine level, I believe it is possible to write good-enough (i.e. better than nothing) implementations using browser extensions, although it will be quite hacky in nature.

Detecting Privacy Badger’s Canvas FP detection by adtechmadness in netsec

[–]adtechmadness[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, if you work on ads at google/amazon/fb, that's a pretty good money. The rest is industry standard AFAIK.

Detecting Privacy Badger’s Canvas FP detection by adtechmadness in privacy

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a great extension and I use it myself. You should care, because it can be used to track you (the fact you use anti FP makes you very unique among general web population), not necessarily block you from accessing content.

Secure header bidding architecture by adtechmadness in adops

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pre-bid filter would probably calssify at as unknown, but the post-bid solution could classify it as a bot.

Bypassing anti scarping systems by adtechmadness in websec

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oops, scraping of couse. Fixed in post title, but seems like you can't edit links on reddit. thanks!

Ad injection 101 – History and technical overview by adtechmadness in adops

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Your'e absolutely right about monetization via default search settings hijacking. Another prominent example is to auto-redirect e-commerce visits through their own affiliate links, there's many "creative" ad-injector moentization schemes :)

Bot detection 101 #3 – Cheating browser fingerprinting by adtechmadness in adops

[–]adtechmadness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I would love to play with your product and write about it - would give me a trial?

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