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>>pabs3+(OP)
> Websites funded by ads require proof that their users are human and not bots...Social websites need to differentiate between real user engagement and fake engagement...Users playing online games want assurance that other players are adhering to the game's rules.

The whole ad based web industry is really desperate to authenticate humans from bots isn’t?

>>irusen+i8
Nah, they want us to think they do. But bot clicks are clicks and can be charged. I read somewhere that 80-90% of facebook ad clicks were bots. That seems inline with the traffic I see on some commercial website I work on. Most traffic is from bots, crawlers, scanners and 'security researchers'.

Sometimes I pick up on actual fraud, like 'affiliate marketing' traffic 'boosters' that just result in someone clicking through a banner, making and order and not paying. 200 times in a day. Nobody cares, as long as the stats look good