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by jdangu 6mo ago
Websites routinely access the same urls over and over in a single page session, especially with aggressive ad refresh. Normally you only incur the first request as load, not the subsequent ones.
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by jdangu 6mo ago
To measure network load, open dev tools, uncheck "disable caches" then clear your browser cache then load the page. Screenshot indicates network cache is disabled so the stated number is inflated.
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by jdangu 3y ago
Since this is taking off, Confiant is hiring in engineering and security to work alongside Kaileigh on projects like this. jerome at confiant. Pardon the plug.
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The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data(confiant.com)
199 points by jdangu 3y ago|254 comments
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by jdangu 3y ago
As someone who authored some keygen templates in this list (circa 1999-2000), this music was not commonly properly sourced. Chip music had already turned classic and we would pick what we liked. Providing credits was best effort. At some po
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Malvertiser ScamClub Bypasses Iframe Sandboxing with PostMessage (CVE-2021–1801)(blog.confiant.com)
2 points by jdangu 6y ago|0 comments
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Malvertising: Made in China(blog.confiant.com)
5 points by jdangu 6y ago|1 comments
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Confiant And Protected Media Uncover Mobile Billing Malvertiser WapSiphone(blog.confiant.com)
1 points by jdangu 6y ago|0 comments
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Tag Barnakle: The Malvertiser That Hacks Ad Servers-Redirects Victims to Malware(blog.confiant.com)
2 points by jdangu 6y ago|0 comments
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Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Scam Abuses Ad Tech to Net $1M in One Day(blog.confiant.com)
2 points by jdangu 7y ago|0 comments
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Malvertiser ‘EGobbler’ Exploits Chrome and WebKit Bugs, Infects over 1B Ads(blog.confiant.com)
3 points by jdangu 7y ago|1 comments
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by jdangu 8y ago
Chrome's protection only works in cross-origin iframes [1] and has been in beta for years. I haven't checked in a while but can't find a source that confirms that it went live. Forbes serves a large portion of their ads in sa
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by jdangu 9y ago
Author here, we don't know their profit, but we estimate that they've spent about $220,000 through 2017, which is fairly cheap if you want to blast 1 billion malverts across the interwebs.
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation(blog.confiant.com)
7 points by jdangu 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdangu 9y ago
Anyone has more info on the performance recovery today? We experienced similar performance issues over the last few days with a seemingly complete recovery today (on a cluster of ~2500 HVM T-1s).
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How to stop rogue ads that can set you up for malware(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by jdangu 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdangu 9y ago
Everyone feels the pain: Publisher gets paid on a $1 CPM basis while Cedato gets paid $5-10 CPM and pockets the difference. Advertiser thinks they paid for quality video content preroll but it's actually a tiny rectangle normally used
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by jdangu 9y ago
Ad security is very weak by design because it allows any fourth-party to serve html/javascript on any website. As long as this is the norm, we'll be around to protect publishers and their audience. Beyond ads, everything we built
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by jdangu 9y ago
it's fraud.
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by jdangu 9y ago
That's not the reason, it's ad fraud. They are most likely paid on CPC (cost per click) and forcing clicks in a hidden iframe. Or they are "stuffing cookies" for an affiliation link, betting that you might buy on that st
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by jdangu 9y ago
Awesome to see that subject #1 on HN. At my startup Confiant [1], we block bad ads in stream on behalf of publishers. Cedato aka Algovid aka TLVMedia is one of our prime targets, we block millions of their ad impressions daily. They are ess
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by jdangu 9y ago
yup, we detect and block most sleazy ad tech schemes through the daisy-chain of third parties. Agreed on UX improvement with ad blockers, we're doing this selectively on behalf of publishers.
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by jdangu 9y ago
We're doing exactly that at my startup Confiant [1], blocking bad ads in stream on behalf of publishers. High quality content websites don't want to ruin UX with bad ads. [1] https://www.confiant.com
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by jdangu 10y ago
Legohead, my startup blocks just the unsafe ads without revenue impact for the publisher. One of our beta clients plans to reach out to their ad-blocking audience to re-enable ads once we're fully deployed. Maybe we can help? jerome at
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Show HN: Embedded Redis client for Redis(github.com)
2 points by jdangu 10y ago|0 comments
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by jdangu 10y ago
ClarityAd | New York, NY | Onsite | Full time ClarityAd's software protects from bad ads. We run ads in our custom browser environment in the cloud to gather hundreds of data points. We assess security and compliance for billions of ad
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by jdangu 10y ago
ClarityAd | New York City | On site or Remote ClarityAd's software protects from bad ads. We would love to hire someone with ad tech experience, but we're ready to train newbies and give you a deep understanding of the ad serving
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by jdangu 11y ago
This is because video ads use an obnoxious ad API called VPAID [1] that is mostly used to track viewability of video ads (which in turn conditions the billing event for advertisers). This is most effectively done with Flash and so 90% of v
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by jdangu 11y ago
Devs talking about fixing bugs in narrator, the earliest TTS engine in home computers: https://github.com/amigasource/amigaos/blob/master/v40_src/w...
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Video malvertising campaign lasted 12 hours? Try two months(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by jdangu 11y ago|0 comments

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