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It won't be different from any of the other silicon valley companies that went public based on numbers inflated by click fraud, but it may be one of the few that gets caught for it.

This is an incorrect conclusion

how did you know?

yes, ads can be GDPR compliant. Consider search ads. They are shown based on the keywords being searched by the user, no data collection needed for search ads to work really well.

agree https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/look-back-evolution-bots-frau...

multiple security firms independently found the same too

the adops community helps me to understand the mechanics and when i don't know something I usually turn to that community to ask questions.

most are helpful, but a few anonymous ones spend their time making polls that make fun of me; but that's OK, I know it comes with the territory

thank you!

you are right; some of the biggest brands need to do the least advertising

this is a really good episode, worth a listen

great summary

hi indymike, what extension in chrome was causing the ad fraud?

Hi, I have helped many publishers that have been falsely accused of ad fraud due to bad measurements by the fraud detection companies. But also check to make sure your wordpress installation hasn't been compromised behind the scenes with malware that might actually be generating fake ad impressions. If you need further help, please reach out to me Augustine Fou (firstname . last name [at] gmail )

see the charts from Incapsula in this article which show a third of the bots are not executing javascript https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140623200557-8...