Ad Industry Insiders connected to fraud scheme, researchers say stole millions

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So is this actually bot traffic of nun human machines or real human traffic that is bought and then just moved over all these page creating video and ad impressions without any actual interaction and clicks?

Reading the original research, the term "bot" is never used. http://blog.pixalate.com/momtaxi-session-hijacking-auto-refr...

But it also doesn't explain where the traffic that is used to do the fraud actually comes from.

(And the term "session hijacking" is definitely abused for something that it doesn't normally mean.)

Sorry for the messed up title, the original was too long and even more sensationalized. I tried to make it shorter and a bit less clickbaity.

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