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Would you mind explaining what this does? I am vaguely aware of "advertising networks" but really don't get it enough to grok what you are doing.

How do you know what device an ad appeared on unless the ad is somehow pulling a monitoring .gif from your servers etc? (That's a bit 90s I know)

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We scrape hundreds of thousands of publishers who we know run the popup/redirect ads, with IP's from 100 + countries, spoofing hundreds of different mobile devices / orientations / etc. There's a little more magic to it than just those things, but that's the principle.

We see what popups appear, and then record this info and show it in the tool.

I would never have thought of that. Thanks

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