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I'm helping a site i frequent try to hunt down a problem set of scam ads presumably coming from one source at this point. Thanks to the google targeting setup, there are people that don't experience it, and people who are delivered it every time. It's of the page forced replacement variety so it's pretty damaging to the users enjoyment. The ad seems to target phones.

Google wants a charles session of the ad procing because they have no idea where it's coming from. I set up a virtual copy of my phone that's using a charles proxy to track the things they need. The problem is i can't get the ad to deliver to me.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to more quickly randomize the ads that i'm delivered, or any controlled way to work towards the problem ads?

Do some random googling from your proxy on the topic of the ad? Maybe that'll help seed the randomizer with the correct information.

Redocbew wrote:

Do some random googling from your proxy on the topic of the ad? Maybe that'll help seed the randomizer with the correct information.

I did do that. They seem to be scam, "you won a new Samsung" or other phone/pad so I did a bunch of searching on that stuff. Still no luck.

The next thing I'd do is probably to use something like Selenium to automate the testing process. That would help with brute forcing the ad selection process, but you'd also need a way extract the ad that's being displayed on each run.

What's the site? I'll give it a try.