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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers


In a post on VPT’s blog, I present significant new research showing Honey not just violating affiliate network “stand-down” rules, but hiding those violations by behaving properly when there is reason to think a user could be a tester. Honey goes as far as checking a user’s cookies for other domains to see whether the user has logged into affiliate network management consoles — widely used by network compliance staff, merchants, and affiliates to manage campaigns.

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