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What is Cloaking? Benefits? (9)

10-14-2015 10:56 AM #1 rjhaynes89 (Member)
What is Cloaking? Benefits?

Hi,

I keep hearing people talk about cloaking.

What is it and what is the benefit?

I used the search function but didn't find any answers.

Thanks.

10-14-2015 12:16 PM #2 lance m (Member)

Cloaking is strategically redirecting certain traffic to certain pages.

Affiliates use it for two reasons: to hide winning landers from spy tools and other snooping affiliates, and to hide non-compliant landers from manual ad reviewers.

Hence, cloaking. You're hiding what you don't want seen.

You redirect unwanted fraudulent traffic to whatever other page you want them to see.

It won't be discussed openly here.

If you really want, google it. Just know that great cloakers are not cheap.

10-15-2015 04:46 PM #3 dr_ngo ()

This should help you

http://charlesngo.com/cloaking/

10-15-2015 11:55 PM #4 elevate (AMC Alumnus)

I struggle a bit with cloaking. Not that I think it's wrong (at least, depending on how much you are out right lying anyway), but I don't want to risk not getting paid for something stupid. I've talked to AMs about this in the past, and the response was basically, "Hey, here are the rules as I'm supposed to present them so we don't get sued. I can't tell you not to break them, but other affiliates are. It's a tough game, and as long as you don't get caught, do what you have to do to make money." Ad networks of course have their requirements, and usually at worst if they find out they 'll just ban your account. Advertisers seem to remain happy as long as they can maintain plausible deniability and your traffic backs out profitably, regardless (to some extent) of how you are driving it. So as long as there is enough effort made by the affiliate in cloaking to make sure all other parties can say "I had no idea...," it's game on. I suppose the thing to do then is get my cloaking game up to speed and get a bit better versed on how to open multiple accounts at ad networks. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I'm seeing the situation in a few of the popular verticals.

11-02-2015 04:32 PM #5 mr_smiley (Member)

I read about cloaking. I actually got directed to STM from a post about cloaking. They said something along the lines of "it won't be talked about on public sites, join stm!" and now I am here people are saying "it won't be talked about on STM, google it!" LOL

My question about cloaking is...facebook aren't stupid right, so what stops their manual ad reviewers using a proxy to view the real ad and not the forwarder? They can afford to have thousands of IP's from all GEOs. I can't see how cloakers can work with FB, I don't see manual reviewers being stupid enough to just use US IP's????

11-02-2015 05:04 PM #6 krisicash (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mr_smiley View Post
I read about cloaking. I actually got directed to STM from a post about cloaking. They said something along the lines of "it won't be talked about on public sites, join stm!" and now I am here people are saying "it won't be talked about on STM, google it!" LOL

My question about cloaking is...facebook aren't stupid right, so what stops their manual ad reviewers using a proxy to view the real ad and not the forwarder? They can afford to have thousands of IP's from all GEOs. I can't see how cloakers can work with FB, I don't see manual reviewers being stupid enough to just use US IP's????
The good cloakers detect, manual reviewers, proxies, vps server ips

11-02-2015 08:18 PM #7 stephen (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by krisicash View Post
The good cloakers detect, manual reviewers, proxies, vps server ips

Exactly. Thats why they cost $$$

11-02-2015 09:16 PM #8 bingmoney (Member)

I expect an answer for better cloa ker

11-02-2015 09:24 PM #9 stephen (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by bingmoney View Post
i expect an answer for better cloa ker

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