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How to dodge spy tools (7)

03-21-2021 07:05 AM #1 gyrotron (Member)
How to dodge spy tools

Hi forum mates
I am here to ask a very important question that most of you might have been struggling with. How can I save my Facebook campaigns from appearing on spy tools. I know many of us spy and copy but I want some of my campaigns not to appear on spy tools as they die after everyone copies..

Any way to dodge them? Thanks in advance.

03-21-2021 05:39 PM #2 platinum (Veteran Member)

This kind of question has been around for like forever regarding almost every traffic source.

As long as your campaigns are visible to real people they will be visible to spy tools as well. Don't stress yourself too much on this and focus on your campaign

03-21-2021 09:18 PM #3 calipso (Member)

You should creat a cloack against affiliates

03-21-2021 11:03 PM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

There is no way to hide anything that displays on FB or on any other ad network, the spytools will find the campaigns pretty quickly. You can try to hide the actual landing pages that the clicks go to, by using some cloaking tool, but keep in mind this is against the rules of pretty much any traffic source and will get you banned, when caught.

Fighting the spytools is a battle you cannot win in the long run. I stopped caring about this long time ago.

03-22-2021 02:35 AM #5 vortex (Senior Moderator)

2 ways I know of:

1)There are commercial solutions that are designed to protect against spy tools.

Google "protect your digital marketing campaigns" or similar.

2)For FB, running at smaller scale will decrease the likelihood of your camps being picked up by spy tools. Also, spy tools mostly set up "generic" profiles so they mainly get served ads that target really broad audiences, e.g. by age+gender. If you target narrower than that (e.g. add an interest; or build an LLA), it shouldn't be as easy for spy tools to find your ads.

However, that would also limit you to running at any kind of scale.


I would put more emphasis on other aspects of running a campaign instead of trying to figure out how to keep stuff out of spy tools. Stuff such as:

-Continuously testing new creatives, landers, offers
-Identifying good and bad ad placements
-Testing bids
-Testing audiences
-Getting access to exclusive offers
-Getting the best offer payouts
-Improving infrastructure (e.g. server) to make redirects and loading faster



Amy

03-22-2021 08:05 PM #6 gyrotron (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by calipso View Post
You should creat a cloack against affiliates


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Quote Originally Posted by vortex View Post
2 ways I know of:

1)There are commercial solutions that are designed to protect against spy tools.

Google "protect your digital marketing campaigns" or similar.

2)For FB, running at smaller scale will decrease the likelihood of your camps being picked up by spy tools. Also, spy tools mostly set up "generic" profiles so they mainly get served ads that target really broad audiences, e.g. by age+gender. If you target narrower than that (e.g. add an interest; or build an LLA), it shouldn't be as easy for spy tools to find your ads.

However, that would also limit you to running at any kind of scale.


I would put more emphasis on other aspects of running a campaign instead of trying to figure out how to keep stuff out of spy tools. Stuff such as:

-Continuously testing new creatives, landers, offers
-Identifying good and bad ad placements
-Testing bids
-Testing audiences
-Getting access to exclusive offers
-Getting the best offer payouts
-Improving infrastructure (e.g. server) to make redirects and loading faster



Amy
Got the idea.. thanks

03-23-2021 01:54 PM #7 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by gyrotron View Post
Just to make sure you fully understand before you invest into a cloaking tool. You can only hide/manipulate what happens after the click on the AD. There is no way to control the actual AD that shows on Facebook as that's fully under their control. I guess you are aware of this, but I've seen people thinking that they can somehow hide the AD too, so just wanted to set this straight

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