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Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud (adage.com)
A company that claims to combat app piracy is a pirate itself, according to a report Oracle released this week. From a report: Oracle claims the company, Tapcore, has been perpetrating a massive ad fraud on Android devices by infecting apps with software that ring up fake ad impressions and drain people's data. Based in The Netherlands, Tapcore works with developers to identify when apps are pirated and then enables developers to make money from those bootleg copies by serving ads. Oracle says that Tapcore's anti-piracy code was a Trojan horse that was generating fake mobile websites to trick ad serving platforms into paying them for non-existent ad inventory.
"The code is delivering a steady stream of invisible video ads and spoofing domains," Dan Fichter, VP of software development at Oracle Data Cloud, tells Ad Age. "On all those impressions it looked like the advertiser was running ads on legitimate mobile websites. Not only were they not on a website, they were on an invisible web browser." On its website, Tapcore says it works with more than 3,000 apps, serving 150 million ad impressions a day. The apps whose pirated versions it has worked with include titles like "Perfect 365," "Draw Clash of Clans," "Vertex" and "Solitaire: Season 4," according to Oracle's report.
"The code is delivering a steady stream of invisible video ads and spoofing domains," Dan Fichter, VP of software development at Oracle Data Cloud, tells Ad Age. "On all those impressions it looked like the advertiser was running ads on legitimate mobile websites. Not only were they not on a website, they were on an invisible web browser." On its website, Tapcore says it works with more than 3,000 apps, serving 150 million ad impressions a day. The apps whose pirated versions it has worked with include titles like "Perfect 365," "Draw Clash of Clans," "Vertex" and "Solitaire: Season 4," according to Oracle's report.
Based in the Netherlands?
The only two languages available on their website are English and Russian. It's clearly a Russian company.
https://tapcore.com/en/position/tech/php-developer
Scummy company that uses the piracy spectre to get companies to insert ads into paid for programs are revealed to be even scummier by faking ad clicks.
Thank's for that Detective Obvious, I never would have thought.
And the fact that they've been accused by Oracle, one of the scummiest of the scummy companies is just a delicious irony.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It just asked the Internet Oracle
http://the-oracle-answers.com/
My question was:
Is a Fighter of Pirated Apps a Front For Ad Fraud?
THE ORACLE answers:
Maybe.
Won't somebody think of the advertisers?
Why is the VP of software development at Oracle Data Cloud investigating Tapcore's anti-piracy code instead of... working on Oracle's Data Cloud?
[quote]Tapcore works with developers to identify when apps are pirated and then enables developers to make money from those bootleg copies by serving ads. [/quote] Sounds like the developers were hoping to cash in a bit as well.
I'm sure Oracle is expert at spotting fraud. Just compare to themselves...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It seems that people these days are always looking for reasons to be butt hurt.
I'm so fucking over apps.
We wouldn't stand for this shit on PCs, but the mobile app market has become a compete shit show, because the overwhelming majority of apps are bullshit, sold by assholes, with the primary purpose being to collect your data and show you ads.
My work phone pretty much has the built in Apple apps, and Entrust .. my personal phone is ancient without a data plan and has no apps whatsoever.
I've pretty much decided that since all apps appear to be written by assholes, they add no value to my life.
Mobile apps has really become cesspool of shady players.
No thanks, you can keep your privacy invading shit, I don't want it.
with half eaten raw animals still in his mouth
The "Oldest Saying" in the Advertising industry is: I know 50% of my advertising dollars are wasted, but I don't know which 50%.
I guess this remains as true today as it was in the seventies.
- The Kessel run is for nerf herders. I can circumnavigate the entire Central Finite Curve in a lot less than 12 parse
at oracle you are a pirate if you don't license there way 100% even say need to buy 50 cores when you just need 1 VM with 6.
https://upperedge.com/oracle/u...
Please note in this scenario the turned off server counts in Oracle’s processor license equation. This is due to Oracle’s policy requiring the entire server farm in the cluster to be counted and licensed because a customer has the potential ability to run the Oracle database on all connected servers and cores. Whereas VMware’s licensing interpretation only takes into account the actual cores assigned to the virtual machine running the Oracle database.
If I buy a magazine and leave the page open with nobody reading it, is that also ad fraud?
Good lord, you aren't kidding.
A bunch of years ago, I was at a company as a consultant, and the application we supported could be accessed via the DMZ and ran on Oracle. Not public access mind you, but you needed to have come through authentication to even reach the app.
The Oracle DBAs were freaking out, because they were afraid Oracle would basically say "wow, you put an Oracle backed app on the interwebs, you need a license for every person on the planet".
It took a fair bit of convincing to point out that the application was behind a firewall, required authentication, and only then could you reach it ... apparently Oracle people live in fear that Oracle is going to expand their interpretation of something and demand stupid sums of money.
Oracle are assholes, I certainly wouldn't want to do business with them.
tldr; billionare Jews having a slap fight about who stole what
Envy, thy face is ugly.