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Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme. Or "the Internet is for porn"
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behind-the-enemy-lines.com
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ranit8
on April 5, 2012
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trotsky
on April 6, 2012
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Pretty interesting story, but definitely an example of giving away lock picks while selling better locks.
thestranger
on April 6, 2012
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What do you mean, he's not trying to sell us anything, is he?
trotsky
on April 6, 2012
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The author claims his company can detect this kind of click fraud (indeed, the whole article is about how they did) through proprietary methods. If you're an advertiser it's likely this behavior is about to become more common.
DanBC
on April 6, 2012
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contains some NSFW images. They could have been put somewhere else. This is an interesting article.
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