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If a given web server can only read cookies from those set within its own domain, how do Internet advertisers track user's web traffic from websites outside of their network? Is there some kind of " supercookie " global advertising system that allows advertisers to retrieve upper-level domain cookies and then query some server (from an affiliate) that houses information about where that user has been? Update: To clarify my question, is it possible for an advertiser that publishes ads on "example2.com" to ascertain that I visited a particular site "example1.com" if they had never served an ad

One of my users let the cat out of the bag and told me they were using one of my free apps, which is monetized by ads, but they were blocking the ads with an ad blocker. They told me this mockingly, as if I can't do anything about it. Can I do something about it? Is there a way to detect that ads are being blocked? Ivan I am aware of one way that ad blocking works (on any computer really), they edit the hosts file to point to localhost for all known ad servers. For android this is located in the "etc/hosts" file. For example, I use admob ads and a host file that I have taken from custom rom

I created a soundboard with a gridview Adapter (so no chance to set the Interstitial Ad on a sound button) I also have a navigationbar with three tabs, so I decidet to set the Interstitial ad on the second fragment like this: public class SecondFragment extends Fragment { private InterstitialAd mInterstitialAd; @Nullable @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View rootView=inflater.inflate(R.layout.second_layout,container,false); final AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build(); mInterstitialAd = new

I want to make a script that's crawling a website and it should return the locations of all the banners showed on that page. The locations of banners are most of the time from known domains. But banners are not in the HTML as an easy image or swf-file. Most of the times a Javascript is used to show the banner. So if a .swf-file or image-file is loaded from a banner-domain, it should return that url. Is that possible to do? And how could I do that roughly? Best would be if it can also returns the landing page of that ad. How to solve that? You could use selenium to open the pages in a real

I got a warning by my ad system provider about click fraud. No further info, all they are recommending is "hide the ads for users who click on ads too quickly'". I wrote a piece of JS script that hides all DIVs with ads for N seconds (using cookie) when clicked on, but this solution does not work as the "inner" content (with ads) is generated by an JS script that calls and renders the content from external server (as you would expect from an ad system). So, when one takes the cross-domain security into account it is kinda Catch 22. How can I detect a click inside a DIV (locally defined) of

It makes a lot of sense that Android ad SDKs will use Android's the new advertiser id. It seems that you can only get the id by using the google services sdk, as mentioned here: http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/id.html . Using the google play services sdk, requires referencing the google-play-services_lib project, which causes several problems: A lot of SDKs are jars, meaning they can't use google-play-services_lib as is (because they can't include resources). If I only want the advertiser ID, I need to add google-play-services_lib to my project, which weights almost 1 MB. Is

Use Case: I plan on marketing iOS apps that I own & operate. I plan on marketing these apps on FaceBook and Google. I want to understand my funnel conversion by source. Meaning what is the install rate on FaceBook v. Google from start to finish. Outside of the app economy I would simply pass a parameter in the URL to indicate source and the web application would suck it in. If I want to use an iTunes redirect URL how would I tracking which installs came from which source? Steven Yarger If it's a paid app, you can use the iTunes LinkShare affiliate program: How to track marketing efforts for