CoinUrl, a Bitcoin advertising service
Basically it's a sort of Google Adswhatever, with two main differences : you pay in Bitcoin and they actually provide tracking.
Out of pure curiosity I sunk a Bitcoin into their system. The expense was quite informative : I now know they show country-and-city geolocation for all clicks, as well as links to all sites which provided impressions and so forthi.
I also know they suck at filtering. For instance :
Selling me the msn index bot as an impression ?! Really ?
At least the delicious candour of actually stating that on their site pleads in favour of the theory they're not fudging any data (which, in the business they're in, is quite rare).
Moving right along, here's a run down of the sites sporting my campaign at the moment :
- pantyhosecandids.com is a dubious TGPii sort of thing (or maybe it's a MFA ?).
- pantyhosephotos.info is the same (exact) thing, pretty certainly run off the same db etc.
- hotexgirlfriends. thumblogger.com, nylonfap.com, yologf.blogspot.com are more of the same.
- badgerbadgerbadger.com and sedicinoni.tv certainly are MFA traps.
- d2k5.com is some private forum with something like five users.
- argentinawarez.com is probably too hot for brazil, comicskulled.net46.net/etc seems to be some sort of similar thing.
- That mon-quotidien.wg.vu thing seems caught into a self-refresh loop, I wonder how lucrative it is.
That about covers their list. Going through their public stats page I notice entries such as jocuri10.org, doing 20.4k (6.9k) impressions today, 23 clicks and 0.00092924 BTC on average per clickiii, e-referat.net, referatele.net and an entire slew of "proiecte de succes" as they're called in their native tongue. There are a few bitcoin sites there too, but mostly the "free microbitcoins" type, not particularly useful in any advertising sense.
In short : CoinUrl sucks. There is absolutely no reason on Earth to pay Bitcoins (or anything else for that matter) to be advertised there. Nobody cares that there's 1.7 million, billion or gadzillion impressions, clicks or whatever if their context is dubious porn sites that survive out of bought traffic, warez crap and other traps for the mentally stunted.
This is a pity, because the frontend is really nice. The only way forward would be to ban all advertisers currently in the system and then hold talks with selected publishers. In the end only allow as advertisers real venues with real readership : bloggers who actually contribute something, maybe some service sites that do something useful. Start in the Bitcoin zone and slowly expand outwards towards economics & politics.
So here's a word to the CoinUrl owner : drop me a line if you want to make CoinUrl into something worthwhile. Maybe we can work something out.
PS. As I was proofing this...
- Really as far as the tracking goes they're a marvel to behold, Google would do well to just throw out their entire crapfest masquerading as a service and replace the entire frontend with an outright CoinUrl copy. [↩]
- Thumbnail Gallery Preview, a site that was making money in porn cca 1998 or something. [↩]
- mircea_popescu ;;calc 0.00092924 * 23 * 10.44123
gribble 0.223155397
A quarter a day... [↩]
Sunday, 28 October 2012
1. On the first image you hide status of the impression. Impressions made by automatic tools (bots) are being rejected and you have not pay for them.
2. If you don't want to receive traffic from some publishers which you are considering to be junk, block them in the Targeting options.
Sunday, 28 October 2012
I didn't hide it, I had no idea there's a status of the impression in the first place.
I'm sure you can reject some publishers (this is the way Google goes, too). The problem with this approach is that the spam is cheaper to make than to filter. The advertiser won't have the resources (patience, mostly) to keep blocking spamsites. It's pretty much the job of the facilitator to do most of the filtering as a service to advertisers.
Sunday, 28 October 2012
So where do I see this status of the impression ? All I see are Date Country Region (state) City in the table and otherwise the exact pop-up as shown. Am I missing something ?
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Rejected impressions must disappear from the list.
But in this concrete case, there was a bug in bot detection algorithm that allowed MSN crawler to load a page with ad. It is fixed now!
For the future I would like to ask you to contact me privately without disclosing
vulnerabilities to the public that I would be able to fix them before someone else could use it for the malicious purposes.
Send your CoinURL username via e-mail, I will refund these impressions.
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Ah, don't worry about refunds, it's okay.
In general I would contact the operator privately if I found a vulnerability, but that'd be something like a way to compromise accounts, or inject SQL / XSS etc.
But since you're looking at bot detection, give a look at that last capture in the PS.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Please write your CoinURL username that I would be able to look your click details:
https://coinurl.com/contact.php
Monday, 29 October 2012
Sent you an email.
Friday, 18 September 2020
Join the Bitcoin System
Learn more: https://keks
Listen to our members who rely on our software to fund their luxury lifestyle:
Chris Hadid
I ask my wife to squeeze me every morning when I wake up and check my bank account. I have never seen this amount in my bank account. And it continues to grow and grow ... this is what I've been waiting for all my life. Now that I have felt what it means to be my own boss and make tens of thousands of dollars every week, I will never look back!
I have been a member of the Bitcoin system for only 47 days. But my life has already changed! Not only did I make my first $ 100,000, but I also met some of the most incredible people. Thank you Steve!
Daniel Pelts
Surprisingly, I used to be a Wall Street investor. And I've never seen anything like it in my 10 years at the company. All my colleagues thought I was crazy when I left the company to devote myself entirely to the Bitcoin System software. Now that the profit is 384,594 euros, all my colleagues CAN let them in.
Meet Steve McKay
The genius of the Bitcoin system. Hello
- I am a former software developer for a large firm, which I mention the name as a giveaway
I Compared to early investors in Uber, Facebook or Airbnb, this software is creating millionaires in record time. If you want to make a million with Bitcoin, watch the video above to see how. Your friend, Steve McKay
Jump to be the first: http://herp
Friday, 18 September 2020
I wonder if Bill Gates gets spam from eager Microsoft hiring agents ; but then I remember the fuckwit never had a blog, and so...
My dear friend I've never met Steve McKay by which I mean Gabrielfreta, I must point out your Chris Hadid is maybe a little late to the party ? Dubious outsiders have been pretending in that vein (while on break from trying to prostitute their own underage sisters) for a decade by now! It's lost all its cachet, if it ever had any to begin with.
Everything gotta be abused, recast and misrepresented as more of the same bullshit, huh. Its the "democratic"-socialist way, "reason"&human rights blablabla&etcerera, huh!
With "friends" like these who even wants anything besides rope.