Ask HN: How to detect bot/fake/invalid traffic?

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We are working on platform where user will be paid part of revenue we earn out of the things they share. But the biggest problem we are facing is how to detect if the traffic is legit or its traffic by botnet just to generate revenue?

Any idea how does youtube analysis's it?

Thanks.

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I am also curious if ie. facebook or google ads filter out bots, or if they cash you for those artificial clicks. It would be 'nasty' if they didn't filter this.

Exactly they do some better way. I am looking for some similar method.

Also may be there are any service provider who provide api to detect the same.

They do not charge advertisers, or pay publishers, for bot clicks. Google spends enormous resources identifying artificial ad clicks. They would not have a business otherwise: bots don't buy advertisers' products, so advertisers that got large amounts of fake traffic would see a negative ROI and stop advertising with them.

These services might be helpful: http://www.distilnetworks.com/ https://www.maxmind.com/en/proxy-detection-service

Cloudflare's enterprise offering might be of use as well.

This solutions are 4x than what we will be earning out of the traffic :(

do you think any other solutions which are pretty cheap than this.

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