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by gcb0 2792 days ago
1. record all network interaction going out of your MRAID adapter, from your few, actual users.

2. replace timestamp and userIDs fields on the network requests you will replay with Math.random()

3. Profit!

Seems pretty simple and banal to me.
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stordoff 2792 days ago
> userIDs fields on the network requests you will replay with Math.random()

Isn't this _why_ you'd need domain expertise? Random User IDs would be detectable - a French user suddenly clicking on English ads and following East Coast time would be a red flag.

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gcb0 2792 days ago
the beauty is that everyone want to do re-attribution, so they can buy cheap and sell expensive.

if I send a bid to google with a random browser id, it will assign a new user on the spot (we wont be lucky to match a valid user as in your example) and all goes on normally.

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