Bypass/Hide Redirect URLs for brokered Mobile CPA Offers

Hello
I'm just starting off to setup my own affiliate network. I'm trying to take offers/campaigns from affiliate networks, but most of these networks are already brokering the offers. Its difficult to have traffic suppliers (affiliates/publishers) drive traffic for brokered campaign.
I was thinking of having all the redirect urls bypassed in a way that publishers are less able to figure out if it is direct or brokered campaign. In nutshell, if a url goes thru 3 to 4 redirects, I want a solution, where my landing page surfaces after the first url is fired (instead of redirects being thrown up and being noticed by publishers/affiliates)
Any suggestions how to go about it

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A smart publisher/affiliate will figure it out by logging HTTP requests and clicking the link. They can see the exact hops.

However, assuming they're not smart and what you mean by "being noticed by publishers/affiliates" is the screen flickering between redirects; this only occurs with javascript redirects. HTTP 3xx redirects can't be detected without logging the HTTP requests.

Hope this helps. The second part of your question was confusing, if I didn't answer properly, clarify and I'll try again.

Thanks --bigot--

bigot said:

A smart publisher/affiliate will figure it out by logging HTTP requests and clicking the link. They can see the exact hops.

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Out curosity, can the HTTP requests be hidden or something?

For 2nd part of the query:
I basically wanted my lander to be displayed thru the redirect funnel at the end

xxclicks said:

Out curosity, can the HTTP requests be hidden or something?

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You can't hide http requests, Developer Tools in browsers are logging everything. You can encrypt request parameters, and decrypt them on backend if it's possible, but that way you have to send the final requests from your server with it's IP instead of from users browser with their IP

xxclicks said:

Thanks --bigot--


Out curosity, can the HTTP requests be hidden or something?

For 2nd part of the query:
I basically wanted my lander to be displayed thru the redirect funnel at the end

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No problem. No, HTTP requests are what your computer sends to request a web page. HTTP 3xx response is basically the server saying to your browser "go to this page (whatever.com)" then your browser automatically sends another HTTP request for whatever.com.

frzs90 said:

You can't hide http requests, Developer Tools in browsers are logging everything. You can encrypt request parameters, and decrypt them on backend if it's possible, but that way you have to send the final requests from your server with it's IP instead of from users browser with their IP

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This will probably set off a lot of red flags in your affiliate networks' fraud departments. Definitely avoid acting like a proxy for what you're doing.

If your goal is to hide request params from the end network... What you can do is make your own database to track everything, and just send a signature to the affiliate network. For example if a 28 year old male from the US clicks on your ad. Instead of sending "28-M-US" to the affiliate network, you can store those details in your database along with the corresponding signature. Say the signature is "abcd". Now you can redirect the customer to affnetwork.com/offer.php?c1=abcd

This way, you can later merge stats from "abcd" with the better identifier "28-M-US". But the affiliate network who received "abcd" has no idea what it means, while you still get your full stats.

bigot said:

This will probably set off a lot of red flags in your affiliate networks' fraud departments. Definitely avoid acting like a proxy for what you're doing.

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Yes, you are right, I just wrote it as a theory, but haven't mentioned that this would be a bad idea. All interactions coming from one IP could result in a ban very quickly.

How about contacting the big networks (from a different email to be sure they won't start double checking you) and asking them about your plan? Maybe they have something to offer.

frzs90 said:

How about contacting the big networks (from a different email to be sure they won't start double checking you) and asking them about your plan? Maybe they have something to offer.

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Yeah, they'll offer him a higher skim rate. Lol.