Overview

What is Adspect

Adspect is a powerful and versatile cloud-based service designed to protect ad campaigns–such as affiliate offers, landing pages, file downloads, and mobile app content–from unwanted traffic. By “unwanted traffic,” we mean:

• ad reviewers (moderators);

• bots of antivirus companies;

• spy services used by competitors to steal your creatives and landing pages;

• click fraud;

• competitors;

• and other kinds of suspicious or hostile visitors.

It works as follows: visitors (traffic of any kind–ads, e-mail, organic, etc.) have their intrinsic attributes collected and evaluated by our special PHP script before reaching their final destination. Adspect performs more than a hundred checks on each click and determines whether a visitor is relevant or unwanted. Relevant visitors are directed to your actual money-making content (the so-called “money page”) while unwanted visitors are shown an alternative version of the content that does not expose any sensitive information (the so-called “safe page.”)

Note

You can find quick answers to frequently asked questions in the Adspect FAQ.

Traffic Sources

Adspect works with all traffic sources, both existing and those that will appear in future. Our filtering algorithms are perfectly universal and equally efficient across all possible origins of traffic.

Some of the major traffic sources used with Adspect

Social	Context Ads	Display Ads	Adult Networks	App Marketplaces
Facebook	Google Ads	Google Display Network	ExoClick	Google Play
Instagram	Bing Ads	Microsoft Advertising	TrafficStars	App Store
TikTok	Yahoo Search	Yahoo Gemini	TrafficJunky	Amazon Appstore
X (Twitter)	Yandex Direct	Yandex Advertising Network	Traffic Factory	Galaxy Store
Telegram	Amazon Ads	myTarget	PopAds
LinkedIn	Baidu Advertising	Taboola	TwinRed
VK		Outbrain	JuicyAds
Quora		ProperllerAds	Adsterra
Snapchat		MGID	CrakRevenue
WeChat		ZeroPark

Other threat types that Adspect protects from

Antiviruses	Ad Checkers	Spy Services	Payment Services	Proxies, VPN, etc.
Google Safe Browsing	GeoEdge	AdPlexity	MetaMask	Bright Data (Luminati)
VirusTotal	BrandVerity	AdSpy	Stripe	GeoSurf
Kaspersky	AdPolice	Anstrex	PayPal	NordVPN
Avast	AdSecure	Adheart	Skrill	Proton VPN
Sucuri SiteCheck	The Media Trust (TMT)	AdClarity		Antidetect browsers
Dr.Web	Confiant	AdSpyder		Headless Chrome and other headless browsers
ESET Online Scanner	Integral Ad Science			Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, PhantomJS, etc.
NortonLifeLock	Ad Lightning (Boltive)			IP transit

Integration

Adspect supports five integration types that differ in technical details and use cases:

• Forward PHP integration: a standalone index.php file is used to direct traffic

• Reverse PHP integration: Adspect is embedded into the PHP code of your landing page

• JavaScript integration: Adspect is embedded into your safe page via <script> HTML tag

• Native integration with Keitaro tracker

• Native integration with Binom tracker

System Requirements

Here’s a list of system requirements for using Adspect:

• VPS / dedicated server / shared hosting

• PHP 5.6 or newer

• php-curl extension

• php-json extension

You can get information about your PHP setup using the following PHP script:

<?php phpinfo();

Hosting

Adspect works best on VPS and dedicated servers. Most shared hosting providers are also supported, but we do not recommend using them due to various technical shortcomings of shared hosting.

Warning

Do not use the following hosting providers:

• Namecheap (inadequate web firewall, but can be fixed)

• Hostinger (antivirus false positively deletes Adspect files)

• Beget (mishandles Cloudflare headers)

• UkrNames, Ukraine.com.ua (inadequate web firewall)

We recommend the following hosting providers:

• Inferno Solutions – no KYC!

  Tip

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  • ADSPECT25VPS – 25% first payment discount for all VPS for 1, 3, or 6 months;

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  • ADSPECT15DEDI – $15 first payment discount for RU-xx and NL3-xx dedicated servers.

• OVHcloud

• Linode

• LeaseWeb

• Hetzner Online

• servers.com

CDN

Adspect fully supports CDN such as Cloudflare. We recommend always parking your domains on Cloudflare with proxying enabled (yellow cloud icon next to domain’s DNS A record); free Cloudflare plan is enough for this.

Workflow

Common Adspect workflow for affiliate marketing campaigns consists of the following steps:

1. Create an Adspect stream for your campaign;

2. Choose an appropriate integration method and follow instructions on the stream’s integration page;

3. Set the stream to the All Money mode and test it to make sure that the money page is displayed correctly;

4. Set the stream to the All Safe mode and test it to make sure that the safe page is displayed correctly;

5. Set the stream to the Filtering mode and test it to make sure that you get forwarded to the money page without any errors (temporarily disable any manual filters that may block you);

6. Set the stream to the On Review mode;

7. Create an ad campaign and submit it for review;

8. Wait for campaign approval and switch the stream into Filtering mode;

9. Run traffic and explore statistics in the Reporting section.