Understanding fraudulent activities in online ad exchanges

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference

• Publication date

  2011-11-02

• Fields of study

  Law, Business, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/2068816.2068843
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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