Hacking Google AdSense

Hari K Gottipati, a software engineer with Motorola Inc, qoutes in his blog, a technique to earn Google AdSense Page Impressions without displaying the Google AdSense ads. It says: Google AdSense makes use of iframe to display the ads and stops you from fetching the ads to the hidden frame, Google has no way to find out whether the iframe is hidden or not.

“This weekend I was working on some thing where I needed to hide iframe based on some action. I figured it out putting the iframe inside div tag and hiding the div tag is very easy. And then I realised that Google adsense uses iframe to display the ads and wanted to see how Google prevents me fectching the ads into a hidden iframe. There is no way(as of now) for Google to determine whether the iframe is hidden or not as I am using div wrapper around iframe to hide it.

Its very simple. Each time a visitor visits a page with an AdSense tag, a piece of JavaScript writes an iframe tag which displays the text or image ads. If you put the Google adsense script inside a div tag and if you hide the div tag, users won't even notice the Google ads. But it actually loads the ads from Google servers into the iframe. It only works with page impression option, because Goolge count the number of impressions each time you load the ads into iframe. I dont think Google has the mechanism to check whether the user is displaying the ads that loaded from Google server or not. Its very difficult for Google to determine this case as iframe itself is not hidden, it is used inside div tag which is hidden.”

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