Headless Web Traffic Threatens Internet Economy
| John P. Mello Jr. 03/25/14 10:42 AM PT | |
 | Online advertising is in serious jeopardy due to the proliferation of bogus content sites serving ads and the armies of botnets that deliver fake traffic to them. It's challenging enough to get Web users interested enough to click on an ad, but now it seems a huge number of ads that supposedly are clicked on aren't even being viewed by human beings. [More...] |
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