Hiding PPV traffiv w/ new window pop?

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Truffles

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How effective is it to hide the source of your traffic (PPV in this instance) by having the user click your creative and popping a new window? Not sure how I'd go about testing this exactly or how to pass through the variables that give the source away (user-agent and not sure what else) to echo out.

I'm not just popping to eBay directly or some shit like that. I'm actually popping to a site of mine that pre-qualifies pretty heavily and then links to eBay and I'm wondering if by popping I'd have 100% covered my ass in terms of traffic source or if they'd still spank me.

I know some PHP but not enough to know how to test for this so I'm hoping someone can just give a definitive answer here as to whether popping a new window successfully hides the fact that your traffic is from PPV.

And.....tits.

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Thanks for the code. I was going to do a dmr but that doesn't catch everything. Sorry about tits hot link, I'll fix later today.

In terms of giving away that I'm using ppv is the user agent all I have to worry about or are there other giveaways?
 
Even if you blank the referrer, user-agent can still be a dead giveaway. All depends how hard they look at your traffic...
 
xanol said:
Even if you blank the referrer, user-agent can still be a dead giveaway. All depends how hard they look at your traffic...
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That's what I was afraid of. So does popping a new window when someone clicks your creative wipe the ppv user agent or not then? Could have sworn I read it did.
 
Truffles said:
That's what I was afraid of. So does popping a new window when someone clicks your creative wipe the ppv user agent or not then? Could have sworn I read it did.
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You can't fake out the useragent, but they're usually clean anyway with most PPV networks.

What does look weird though IMO is when %100 of your traffic comes from IE and nothing else. Again, depends how hard they're looking...
 
xanol said:
What does look weird though IMO is when %100 of your traffic comes from IE and nothing else. Again, depends how hard they're looking...
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Also, why would all the traffic come from IE? If you are inferring that FF wouldn't show my pop I believe you are wrong as I recall reading that the pops are software-based, not browser-based, so FF actually has nothing to block.
 
Last time I tested with mediatraffic, you could be browsing with FF or IE and the software would always pop IE windows...
 
xanol said:
Last time I tested with mediatraffic, you could be browsing with FF or IE and the software would always pop IE windows...
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Ah that would do it. Still waiting for their stuff to start popping on my machine.
 
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