{"id":1093,"date":"2017-03-27T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2017-03-27T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:53:59","slug":"adware-vs-ad-fraud-like-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2017\/03\/27\/adware-vs-ad-fraud-like-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Adware vs ad fraud like fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/60-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">60 Minutes<\/a> did a piece\u00a0on fake news &#8212; \u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"What surprised 60 Minutes producers who reported on 'stories that are provably false' -- and why arguing about it 'is like going down the rabbit hole'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/whats-fake-news-60-minutes-producers-investigate\/\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s &#8216;fake news&#8217;? 60 Minutes producers investigate.<\/a>&#8221; An example was shown\u00a0of\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_bot\" target=\"_blank\">bots<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0being\u00a0used to inflate the popularity\u00a0of an online comment or posting on\u00a0social media. Well, the same trick is used by criminals for ads, as noted in this <a title=\"Adware and ad fraud are in the same business and both don\u2019t care very much how they make money\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/adware-vs-ad-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malwarebytes blog article.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adware<\/strong>: any software application that shows advertisements while one of the components of the adware is running. The word is a contraction of advertising and software and often just regarded as \u201cadvertising-supported free-ware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ad fraud<\/strong>: a type of fraud that lets advertisers pay for advertisements even though the number of impressions (the times that the advertisement has been seen) is enormously exaggerated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the article for more details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night 60 Minutes did a piece\u00a0on fake news &#8212; \u00a0&#8220;What&#8217;s &#8216;fake news&#8217;? 60 Minutes producers investigate.&#8221; An example was shown\u00a0of\u00a0&#8220;bots&#8221;\u00a0being\u00a0used to inflate the popularity\u00a0of an online comment or posting on\u00a0social media. Well, the same trick is used by criminals for ads, as noted in this Malwarebytes blog article. Adware: any software application that shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104,103],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-adware","tag-fake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}