It's much, much harder to detect and block that; if we could only see activity on our own individual websites it'd be nearly impossible to tell the normal clicks from the fraudulent activity.
It's much, much harder to detect and block that; if we could only see activity on our own individual websites it'd be nearly impossible to tell the normal clicks from the fraudulent activity.
From the single advertisers perspective, the easiest solution I can recommend is working with networks which provide eCPA-type bidding* - as then sites which actively buy traffic from bot nets will over time be blacklisted automatically from your campaign. Back when I was on the buy-side of online advertising, we used that "trick" to great success with a major credit card issuer buying billions of impressions.
*What I mean by eCPA type bidding is when you tag your conversion page with the network's pixel, and the network uses your conversion data to optimize the campaign on their end to get rid of publishers which send click that never convert. I know there is a better term for this, but it's a Sunday night and I haven't worked in media buying for a few years now...