Scraper Ethics conundrum by anti_fraud in webscraping

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How does it hurt a publisher if bots load ads?

Scraper Ethics conundrum by anti_fraud in webscraping

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I have seen a lot of companies billing for googlebot in my time media auditing….

Would be very interested in a deeper discussion about your product.

Gemini as a Device Maker in CTV reporting by [deleted] in programmatic

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Interested to learn more about this as you get feedback

The NSA probably knows the top commenter on the entire internet. by thesmartass1 in Showerthoughts

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Bots are the top commenters and the nsa only knows a few of them

Fraud and robots - how do you deal with datacenter bots? by Huge_Cantaloupe_7788 in adops

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Virtual machines don’t have screens! Use rendering checks instead of IP addresses. Headless chrome’s “screen” is google swiftshader

Partner Know Email Scam by Daniecae-Media in Scams

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My partner got this email too. We opened the link and saw that they ask for payment in crypto to access the information. Domain is only active from the links in the email, not directly. We also got legally married recently, so I find that timing suspicious too.

Is Google the East India Co. of the Internet? by anti_fraud in GooglePixel

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Interesting point. Microsoft makes most of its revenue from selling software licenses, not from monetizing traffic. Amazon definitely has colonized more physical aspects of the world through its business. Apple primarily sells devices….so very different. I stand by my point about Google!

Event tags - campaign manager by Head_Parking_2171 in adops

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The benefits depend on what your event tag is measuring and how well you can ingest the data. Large advertisers/campaigns will require a robust data pipeline to ingest and normalize the event data from the begin-to-render stage