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Originally Posted by Zyber
Thanks. Just had a quick look at it.
This system relies on Javascript being run on the user's browser. It trusts that the browser's DOM events are untampered. It might detect manual click fraud from real humans.
The system does not seem to take into account that hitbots exists, which could emulate all of the HTTP traffic.
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Yes it's old and was only meant as an example to show that some people have researched these things. Actually if you want to detect any type of shaving looking for hit shaving can be a good start because unless you also shave hits the results of sale shaving will usually show in the ratios. It's also one of the easiest things to test. Even complex dynamic hit shaving mechanisms (shaving a percentage of growth) could be uncovered by throwing out a controlled number of clicks over time in various patterns to see what the sponsor registers in different cases.