Tech Support, Remote Access and Adsense Fraud
July 20th, 2009 by Sarah KingHere’s a new little twist to the old Click Fraud drama that the Adsense team spend their days combatting.
Nishant introduces himself over at DigitalPoint as a manager for HP Technical Support. He later tells me privately that he’s cooked up a scheme where he and his team will click my Adsense Ads during remote access support sessions on their client’s computers.
So what does this mean? Read the rest of this entry »
Online advertising and the petty criminal
June 23rd, 2006 by Sarah KingBack in the beginning of my web life, before OO and web frameworks and CMS systems and even blogs there were banner exchange programs. Being an honest kind of girl I never cheated the system but those who did used auto surfing programs to boost their hit counts.
The owners caught on and started tracking IP addresses and looking for trends so that they would weed out the cheats and reward the honest webmasters.
Then came paid online advertising, Read the rest of this entry »
