Google steps up click fraud war
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 02 March 2007 - 18:30 · 6 comments & 1930 views
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#1 Posted by +M2Ys4U on 02 Mar 2007 - 18:51
- as long as innocent publishers don't get caught in the crossfire of this "war" then it's all good
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#2 Posted by frazell on 02 Mar 2007 - 19:12
- This wasn't elaborated on (and I'm sure it won't be as it would undermine their efforts), but i wonder how successful can they really be?
How can you accuratly detect a competitor on a click frauding webmaster? Simple minded ones might be easy to catch, but what about someone coming through a proxy? Large scale proxy hoping though as used to be very popular for web security where they have their connection jump to a new proxy on each page request. Not all proxies are detectable either...
They of course have to try something to keep their credibility up, but i don't think they can eliminate anything more than "casual" fraud.
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#3 Posted by hava333 on 02 Mar 2007 - 19:18
- About time. It probably took them 30 seconds to add this, and it should have been added months ago.
I got banned from AdSense on a site that 0 people knew about because some jackass decided to click on the ads 100s of times a day. It would have been really easy for me to just look in my logs and go "oh, this IP address is listed hundreds of times, and it isn't mine, so its probably the one responsible for all the clicks because they are the only other visitor to this site."
I hope I don't get in trouble for posting source for this "great" feature:Get Click, IP Address of User;
Read from blocked userfile;
if (IP Address of User is in blocked userfile)
{
// DO NOTHING
}
else
{
Do whatever they do when a user clicks;
}
NICE JOB GOOGLE! -
#3.1 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 03 Mar 2007 - 00:50
- Wow, that bites. D:
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#4 Posted by Sparky2002b on 02 Mar 2007 - 22:01
- Lmao hava333
More like:
if ($publisher_IP_address == $clicked_by_IP_address)
{
adsense_ban($publisher_username,"No reason given."
;
};
Controlling who is presented with the advertisements allows a company to prevent them from being seen by competitors. Click fraud is considered the Achilles heel of pay-per-click advertising. When advertisers are no longer able to rely on the accuracy of the billing system, they are likely to lose faith in the service.