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Postback API: glossary and an end-to-end example
A short reference: click, conversion, click_id, S2S, macros, signature. End-to-end curl flow and a checklist for when the postback fails to arrive.
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Lead-gen form protection without CAPTCHA: five layers in an hour
Five layers against form spam without CAPTCHA: honeypot, time-to-submit, behavior-score, email validation, and rate-limit. Case: from 2,000…
Geo-redirects without the headache: 12 countries, one link
Geo-redirect for ecom and SaaS: 99.6% country-level accuracy, how to handle VPN traffic, and how to avoid breaking SEO with canonical + hre…
Where UTM gets lost — and what TDS shows instead
Four places where UTM disappears on the way to your site: ITP, shorteners, webview, AMP. A 5-minute diagnostic and how to fix it with serve…
How antibot works in plain English: four layers, no magic
IP reputation catches ~40% of bots, user-agent another ~20%, JS fingerprint takes it to 95%. A four-layer walkthrough and why CAPTCHA is th…
Smart-link vs the dumb redirect: when one link is no longer enough
Why the 301 redirect is no longer a universal tool. Six routing dimensions, fallback chains, and when the plain 302 is still the right answ…
Migrate from Keitaro in 24 hours: step-by-step guide
Full breakdown of the process: what the manager handles, what you do, how we move domains and campaigns without losing conversions. With ti…
Postback latency: how we cut it from 280ms to 28ms
Profiling, edge offload, UDP batching and Rust on the hot path. What worked, what did not, and how to pick a realistic target.
JS-fingerprint vs IP blocking: next-gen antibot
Why IP lists are outdated and how behavioural signals catch bots in real time.
5 cloaking setup mistakes we see every week
A breakdown of 5 configuration mistakes that make traffic filtering behave unexpectedly. Open page, referer, Cloudflare cache, geo filter a…
When you need a tracker, and when UTM is enough
A simple answer to a newcomer question: at what point UTM stops being enough. A 7-point checklist, cloud vs self-hosted, typical mistakes.
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