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07-27-2017 12:55 PM #1 media assassin (Member)
Bot detection help!

Hey Guys,

Can you do me a little favour and direct me to a good post on the best way to exclude bots traffic or the best testing process for this.

I had an idea of adding some Javascript to detect screen size to pick it up that way but any suggestions or pointers are welcome!

Thanks,
G

07-27-2017 01:30 PM #2 manu_adefy (Veteran Member)

Hey G,

I think this might be something you are looking for, right?

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...n-Any-Campaign

Manu.

07-31-2017 03:01 PM #3 media assassin (Member)

Thanks mate!

07-31-2017 04:45 PM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Another popular method is setting up a BOT trap - invisible link that points to a different offer, for example. It could be a 1x1 image link, text link with the same color as the background ... basically a link that is not visible to the human eye, but BOTs will click on it anyways. If you see clicks on that link in the tracker, you know it's bots.

08-01-2017 08:19 AM #5 media assassin (Member)

This is great idea actually, I can set this my side, thanks again

08-01-2017 10:55 AM #6 caurmen (Administrator)

Tip: set the invisible link to almost the same colour as the background.

It's not hard to code a bot to ignore any link that's the same colour as the HTML body, but it's significantly harder to give it a range of colours to ignore.

So if the background's #ffffff, for example, set your link as #fffffe . Still indistinguishable to the human eye, more or less, but code-wise, completely different.

08-01-2017 01:48 PM #7 adcombo (Member)

Originally Posted by media assassin

Maybe this material can help you.

11-06-2017 02:10 PM #8 malu_cn (Member)

detect navigator.platform timeZone ontouchstart ontouchmove

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