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2 interesting discoveries I made from ripped landers today (7)

07-10-2018 07:45 PM #1 whisperscuba (Member)
2 interesting discoveries I made from ripped landers today

I spend a lot of my time recently looking at ripped landers and have been learning all kinds of tricks. Here is an interesting snippet I found today (commented out, obviously by someone else who ripped the lander and didn't understand it)

Code:

tdmnf = atob('aHR0cHM6Ly8=')+getURLParameter(atob('dHJhY2tpbmdkb21haW4='))+atob('L2NsaWNr');

For those that can't read Base64 fluently (wait, there are people out there who can't?!) this translates to:

Code:

tdmnf = "http://"+getURLParameter("trackingdomain")+"/click";

Why go to the effort of obfuscating this I wonder? Is it something to do with hiding the link from bots?

A second curious thing I noticed is this wondrous little snippet:

Code:

<script src="OneSignalSDK.js" async=""></script>
<script>
  var OneSignal = window.OneSignal || [];
  OneSignal.push(function() {
    OneSignal.init({
      appId: "[REDACTED]",
    });
  });
</script>

I found this one on an antivirus lander. Now that is interesting. OneSignal is a push notification tool... I wonder if there are affiliates out there getting permission from users to send push notifications, then remonetising the traffic by sending them offers. If a sizable fraction of the users accept notifications, and it doesn't affect conversion rates negatively, this could be very lucrative.

07-11-2018 03:41 AM #2 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Why go to the effort of obfuscating this I wonder? Is it something to do with hiding the link from bots?

Interesting! I just came from this thread:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...s-off-Adplexit

I'm not tech-saavy at all, so have little idea what the reason behind the obfuscation can be.

As for push notifications - more than one big affiliate has told me that it's been working well for them - that it doesn't negatively affect conversion rates, and that the resulting CR from monetizing them with push notifications is impressive. So you're encouraged to try it out!

Thanks so much for sharing your findings Whisper!

Amy

07-11-2018 05:08 AM #3 erikgyepes (Moderator)

There could be couple of reasons that I can think of:

make it look suspicious for an affiliate who is blindly ripping landers - that code looks potentially "dangerous" so they will remove it and break the lander.
it could have to do something with bots as you mentioned OR maybe preventing google flags for your tracking domain? (not sure if it would help, but maybe)
hide tracker URL from spy tools, which basically fall into the bots category, spy tool is just a bot as well

Yep, the second will be probably building his own push notification list.

Here is a great recent tutorial by @mrbraun how to do it: How to create your own Push-Notifications

07-11-2018 05:49 AM #4 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

Great findings, not many go to the debts of what you do, they just get the LPs cleaned and bare and rip n run away. Good job.

07-11-2018 08:02 AM #5 manu_adefy (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by whisperscuba

Yes, they do: https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...-Notifications

09-20-2018 05:48 AM #6 sean3 (Member)

What made you to even go to the depths of firstly finding the code and then researching on what it meant? Crazy!

Sorry if this comes too noobish to you..what is Base64 ? been reading but havent got much useful info..any starting point would be helpful. Thanks Whisperscuba!

09-20-2018 07:31 AM #7 shishev (Moderator)

Here's a cool vid explaining Base64 @sean3:

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