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Richard Kahn: July 20, 2022
For any organization running any kind of online advertising campaign, invalid traffic (IVT) from bots is an enormous issue. To put a dent in the ad fraud caused by bots, bot detection is vital. After all, how can you put a stop to bots if you can’t...
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Richard Kahn: July 13, 2022
Form bots—automated programs built to fill out forms—have long been a popular tool for committing ad fraud. Fraudsters often use form bots to conduct a specific type of ad fraud: lead generation fraud.
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Richard Kahn: July 6, 2022
Online data privacy is an enormous (and complicated) issue. User privacy tools help protect regular website visitors from having their data tracked, taken, and used against them. Some consumers and advocacy groups have pushed hard for increased...
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Richard Kahn: June 29, 2022
Every four years, American voters gather to choose the next President of the United States (POTUS). In between these larger elections, states and local municipalities hold votes to fill seats in Congress, elect municipal officials, and pass or deny...
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Richard Kahn: June 22, 2022
When it comes to ad fraud detection, accuracy is critical. Not only do you need to identify as much fraud as possible to avoid handing your company’s hard-earned money to fraudsters, but you need to verify that any activity flagged as fraud actually...
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Richard Kahn: June 15, 2022
We live in an age where it’s crucial to have an online presence. It’s how prospects find you, how they learn about what you have to offer, and how they contact you. Failing to keep up with digital trends is synonymous with losing business to...
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Richard Kahn: June 8, 2022
With the recent news involving Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter being put on hold because of worries about fake accounts on the platform, now may be a good time to talk about the problem of ad fraud on social media, fake social media accounts, and...
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Richard Kahn: June 1, 2022
Elon Musk, the business magnate and richest man in the world worth $265 billion USD, is looking to buy Twitter. The social media platform with roughly 463 million monthly active users (MAU) may no longer rank in the top 10 most popular social media...
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Richard Kahn: May 25, 2022
Bots, programs that are used to automate common tasks for human users, have been around almost as long as computers themselves. Good bots have all kinds of uses. For example, Google uses bots to crawl the web and index web pages so their users can...
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Richard Kahn: May 11, 2022
There are many tools that fraudsters use in their schemes to take money from your company’s online advertising campaigns. Even legitimate technology solutions that are meant to help consumers can be twisted into tools for fraud.