Lets try to learn cloaking

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How people cloacks:
  • IP Collection – The software has a database of the IP addresses of the reviewers. This can be as simple as launching a campaign, pausing it, and recording any IP’s that visit the page.
  • Referral URL’s – If someone is coming from dev.facebook.com, it’s probably a reviewer.
  • GeoIP – This method is quite simple. If you’re running traffic in Italy, then only allow traffic from Italy. Sometimes the traffic source reviewers are in UK or USA, and they’re not going to be able to see your page unless they have an Italian IP address.
  • Ban the city – Does the traffic source only have reviewers based in Montreal, Canada? Then they can just block any visitors from Montreal.
Okay there are basic ideas but this what i found on internet any other idea?
 
Didnt even know about the existence of a cloakin section lol


Click on ' Main Forums' on the left sidebar and then scroll down the page and sub forums are listed in each forum like this one

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How people cloacks:
  • IP Collection – The software has a database of the IP addresses of the reviewers. This can be as simple as launching a campaign, pausing it, and recording any IP’s that visit the page.
  • Referral URL’s – If someone is coming from dev.facebook.com, it’s probably a reviewer.
  • GeoIP – This method is quite simple. If you’re running traffic in Italy, then only allow traffic from Italy. Sometimes the traffic source reviewers are in UK or USA, and they’re not going to be able to see your page unless they have an Italian IP address.
  • Ban the city – Does the traffic source only have reviewers based in Montreal, Canada? Then they can just block any visitors from Montreal.
Okay there are basic ideas but this what i found on internet any other idea?
You forgot the most important part. User agents/OS/Browser.
 
how are these important, are reviewers using special User agents/OS/Browser?

Maybe they have a special software for review ads but that will be so obvious for cloaker so i think they use browser just like us
 
how are these important, are reviewers using special User agents/OS/Browser?
Manual review process takes place later. First its automated crawlers which crawl through the page and AI takes down bad content down right there.
 
There are a lot of parameters you should check except IP/UA/Referers (the last two are easily faked).

Good cloaking consist of three parts:
1. Auditing a huge amount of traffic and collecting information.
2. Detecting anomalies and patterns.
3. Technical implementation of cloaking, and it totally depends on the algorithms you gathered from the step 2.

Sometimes IPs/ASNs are not enough.
 
Note that cloaking by user agent without IP checks is dangerous. Google can catch this in a minute.
 
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