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Device farm

Written by Udit Verma

Device farms are a form of mobile ad fraud in which scammers manually carry out actions (like clicks, installs, and other types of engagement) to give the appearance of legitimate activity while sapping advertising budgets.  What is a device farm? […]


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Click Redirection

Written by Nandini Pathak

What is Click Redirection? Ever clicked on an online ad or link with the intention of visiting a specific website, but instead you were redirected to another website? This is called click redirection. It is a type of ad fraud […]

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Click Hijacking

Written by Bharath S.

Click hijacking is one of the most common forms of attribution fraud, but it’s also one of the easiest to spot. When a fake click is delivered to an attribution after the installation has begun, this is known as click […]

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Click Flooding/Click Spamming

Written by Nandini Pathak

What is Click Flooding? A click fraud that prevalently occurs in the affiliate marketing industry is click flood or click spamming. Click flooding, though easy to detect, is a notorious fraud practice that drains the budget of many unaware affiliate […]

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CTIT

Written by Nikhil Kumar

Click to Install time (CTIT) is the time between clicking on the online advertising  and opening the versatile application interestingly after effectively downloading the application structure application store. It is numerically derived from subtracting the initial time application open time […]

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Emulated Device

Written by Barkha Gaur

Emulated devices, often known as device emulators, are non-mobile devices that run mobile operating systems. Most developers use device emulators on their laptops to test their products on various devices or operating systems without having to buy and set up […]

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Mobile ad fraud

Written by Bharath S.

What is Mobile Ad fraud? Mobile ad fraud is a representation of various methods used by fraudsters to exploit attribution systems used to measure ROI on advertisements. Ad fraud is most often perpetrated by publishers as well as individuals/groups (aka […]

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SDK spoofing

Written by Bharath S.

What is SDK spoofing? SDK spoofing (otherwise known as SDK hacking) is a type of bot-based fraud, often executed by malware hidden on an app.  How does SDK spoofing work? With this technique, fraudsters add code to an app that […]

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Phone Farm

Written by Nikhil Kumar

What is a phone farm? Phone farms (also called device farms and click farms) are maintained for the purposes of mobile ad fraud and are illegal in much of the world. As mobile advertising budgets have grown, phone farms dedicated […]

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Blacklist

Written by Barkha Gaur

Blacklist is a term that is used in paid advertising which refers to a specific filtering type that is meant to prevent certain websites from displaying your ads. This may be because the ROI from the website displaying your advertisements […]

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