A new kind of information has emerged recently: alternative data. A lot of businesses around the world are already working on acquiring and using it. What is it, why is it so valuable, and how can you gather it? Let’s figure it all out.
While years ago real estate agents struggled to get the data because of all the secrecy, today the problem is very different: there is so much data that it’s hard for a human to process all of it. That’s where web scraping comes to help real estate agents.
Browser fingerprints contain a lot of data about the user, which is another threat to our privacy. Additionally, these fingerprints are a threat to the success of the data gathering process. Why and how can they impact web scraping? Let’s figure this out.
Fraudsters have a plethora of methods at their disposal. One of them is ad fraud: It allows them to fool advertisers into believing their ads are working correctly, while in reality, they receive no traffic or leads.