Weeding through Bot Traffic on Native/Revcontent

Hey guys,

Working on weeding through high bot placements on Rev and wanted to see if anyone has any good techniques they use to accomplish this.

Here’s what i’ve tried so far

1) Look for high ctr of low ctr’s from lander to offer page (<0.15% or >0.85%), it’s working slowly but takes significant data, especially on blacklist to do reliably. With that said, this has been my go to technique so far

2) Put in a link that no human would click on landing page. I liked the idea and got bots clicking on it but wasn’t able to reach a big number of bots per placement to blacklist out widgets.

3) Javascript redirect before hitting lander. Idea here was that some basic bots have a hard time reading ja ...