Tip for self serving CPM networks.

In our struggle to improve the quality of cost per mille traffic our development team came up with a simple solution to filter bots from actual humans.

Our past few months researches showed one thing. No bot was able to call javascript events such as mousemove, onfocus, hover etc...

We would like to share this with all the self serving networks out there in order to improve the overall quality of traffic and to stop people from faking traffic with proxies, traffic generating softwares etc...

Our solution :

<script>
document.addEventListener("mousemove", mvmsr);
   function mvmsr() {
     window.xmmove=1;
   }

setInterval(function(){
   if(window.xmmove==1 && window.alreadycounted!=1){
      window.alreadycounted=1;
       //call your visit count function because the user is human
   }
}, 3000);
</script>

Code (markup):

Basically, what this code does is : the script will check if the user is moving the mouse over the page, and if it does it will count the visit as valid, if not, it will not count it.

P.S. don't worry the visit will not be counted twice because of the window.alreadycounted indicator

Hope this helps!

Regards.

 

Nice! this should be a great help to catch the thieves.

 

1. Your research is wrong. Clickbots can and do simulate mouse movement. It is actually MUCH easier to do than you think.
2. Your solution not only will not stop clickbots, but is likely to filter all mobile traffic(because there is no mouse movement due to obvious reasons).

 

+1 I was just about to say this before scrolling down to see it.

Honestly best way to catch scammers is to post them publicly to not only show you don't support fraud but to allow other networks the opportunity to avoid them. Also, if any networks accept them, they can be held accountable for allowing fraud.

 

@ADEXM Ltd. I have seen your network getting targeted on TBN. This forum is notorious for targeting new networks and exploiting them. If you hit me up with a message. I will direct you to the users doing this.

 

@tomksoft yes... you seem to be right.
@wrekoniz3 we're already doing that : adexm.com/hall_of_shame.php

 

Someone should make a thread on here, and do it as well, and identify the members doing it, and networks should contribute, because there is a lot of people on here even that are scammers.