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Nice to see you in our Super Aff Community of the CPA world! Together, we’ll bring your income to the highest level possible! 

If you’re reading this, probably, you’re at the very beginning of affiliate marketing.

Although affiliate marketing is a challenging field, your experience, knowledge, and skills will enable you to reach the CPA heights in the future. 

Big journeys begin with small steps. Scroll down to find our articles and make your first step into affiliate marketing.

How it works

• What is affiliate marketing?
  
• What is COD? 
  
• How can an affiliate network be helpful, and what is it? 

Preparing for work

Choosing an offer

• AdCombo’s Telegram bot suggests the most fitting or top offers without contacting a manager
  
  
• How to choose the best offer for a beginner?
  
  
• What types of conversion do exist? What to keep in mind when looking for an offer? What traffic sources are suitable for various offers? 
  
  

Domain name & Web Hosting

• Comprehensive guide on domain names and web hosting servers
  
  
• What hosting server to choose for affiliate marketing?
  
  
• How to park my domain name in AdCombo? 
  
  

API

• What is it and where to find it?
  

Tracking

• What is affiliate tracking and how to set it up? 
  
  

• Tracking software programs and what they serve for
  

Antidetect browser

• Series of articles to learn what it is, what parameters it replaces and how Facebook identifies users
  
  

• How to choose the right antidetect browser?
  
  

Virtual cards

• Combo.Cards, in-house AdCombo’s virtual cards service to pay for ads
  

Promoting a campaign

• What type of content to create for a niche site and how to rank it?
  
  
• What are the essential elements of a good product review to get sales?
  
  
• How to draw attention with ads?
  
  
  
• Can I calculate the Forecasted Conversion Rate in my AdCombo Statistics?
  

Internal A/B tests

• AdCombo’s link rotator and how to use it for tests. Now, it’s available in the My Campaigns tab —> Create new campaign.

Traffic sources

• What is a blacklist/whitelist, and how can they save my money?
  
  
• How to choose a high-quality traffic source? Analyzing Different Traffic Sources
  

• Narrow targeting is better than a wider one?
  
  
  

Facebook

• How to unblock my account?
  
  
  
• What is Facebook Pixel and how to use it?
  
  Facebook Pixel has been turned into Meta Pixel (upd. instruction 1, upd. instruction 2). Its interface and the one of AdCombo have also changed since the publication date of the article. Nevertheless, the article will guide you through the general steps of understanding what the Pixel is and how to set it up, both on Facebook and in AdCombo.
  
• What are Automated FB rules, and how can they make your ad processes easy?

Instagram 

• How to promote Nutra offers on Instagram?

TikTok

• How to make a trending video ad on TikTok?
  

Google

• How to create an ad campaign using Google Adwords?
  
  
  
• How to rank a site in Google?
  

Native Ads

• Is native ads suitable for a beginner? What budget do I need?
  
  

• Anyhow, I want to learn more about it!
  

Pop-up ads

• What is an effective mobile pop-up ad?

FREE traffic

• Is it real to launch a campaign without any expenses?!
  

Tips & recommendations from experts

• How to cope with fear and launch an ad campaign?
  
  
• FB experts share their experience, thoughts, and pieces of advice
  
  
• TOP affiliate team reveals the secret of farming accounts on Facebook
  
  
  

Inspiration from the AdCombo Community

• Managers talk about their affiliates who participated in an AdCombo challenge
  
  
  
• Winners of AdCombo Challenges reveal what led them to victory
  
  
  

Questions about starting partnership with AdCombo

How to enter my AdCombo account?

When your account is approved by a manager, you can come into the AdCombo platform as a user. Don’t forget to confirm your e-mail after signing up, btw!

1. Go to https://my.adcombo.com/login 
2. Type in your E-mail and Password
3. Done! Now it’s time to enable Two-factor authentication:
   
   

Click on your nickname in the upper right Account Settings put a tick in the box Enabled in the Two-factor authentication block.

Then copy your security code to a Two-factor authentication app that you’ll use to log in. 

NB: Please note that now all users can access the AdCombo platform before their accounts are approved. The demo access enables new affiliates to look through the interface tabs, excluding an opportunity to promote affiliate links.

How can I contact my manager?

Contacts of your manager will appear next to AdCombo’s logo at the upper left. There, you can also create a ticket in the system if your manager is on vacation.

When I can receive my payment, and what is the minimal sum for withdrawal? 

We pay out TWICE a week: on Tuesdays and Fridays. You can withdraw min. $50.

How do I add data for a payment system and request a payout?

Сlick on your nickname in the upper right Payment settings. 

Then go to the tab “Payouts” after you have completed the settings. Here you can make a request (payments are made on request, not automatically). Withdraw funds through several services in one day, If needed.

Why do payouts on an offer get into hold? How long does it take?

What are payment options?

Can I receive payouts in cryptocurrency?

Click here to find the answers.

Need help, but your manager is out of reach?

1. Leave a ticket
2. Contact other managers via a Telegram bot
3. Ask AdCombo Community in a Telegram chat.
   
   
   

Do you feel that now you have a superpower for taking actions? Then rush to new achievements, and we’ll be somewhere around.

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Whole lotta luck and prooofit! 

How do antidetect services work?

All antidetect services are built on the open source browsers and are modifications of Chrome or Firefox.

Services differ from each other in the purpose of their use and the original purpose of their development. Geeks, that are obsessed with network security, work with Firefox Portable with installed plugins: Multilogin Canvas Defender; WebRTC Leak Shield; NoScript; User-Agent Switcher and Manager; Language Switch; Clear Flash Cookies; Cookie AutoDelete or Epic Privacy Browser, but it can’t be used for Facebook Ads.

SMM services like swSpyBrowser or MultiBrowser allow to create many accounts at the same time, distinguish between sessions and cookies but they are suited only for spam. It’s not enough for affiliate marketing.

The most relevant and appropriate solutions have been and remain Linken Sphere and Multilogin. These are quite popular options and many people think that they are equal to each other, but on closer examination, however, it turns out that they differ in terms of implementing.

Linken sphere browser is created by a russian developers team. It was created as a solution for online fraudsters to get around the anti-fraud systems (in committing operations with stolen credit cards). It was quite effective and became popular among the affiliates. The Linken Sphere team is loyal to their clients that use the browser for illegal purposes and it doesn’t make the app any worse for Facebook.

The development was carried out from the core of the CEF framework. It’s not exactly a browser but a browser framework for embedding into the other app. However, Linken Sphere became a full browser through the efforts of Tenebris team. You can’t install plugins, there is no auto-complete function and it doesn’t save your passwords (that every browser does) but other than that, it’s the real working browser.

Linken Sphere works on the WebKit engine and it means that Firefox and Internet  emulation is not the best idea. The Linken Sphere’s support-managers don’t recommend it as well. Until quite recently, Linken Sphere changed Canvas and WebGL prints at the level of JS (which anti-fraud systems could recognize). But starting with the 7th version, the substitution is built into the browser code natively and invisible for anti-fraud systems. Currently, when you create a system configuration with Google Chrome, Linken Sphere emulates the 63rd version of Chrome (which is not good as we said above).

Currently, there are more than 260,000 user prints in the Linken Sphere database . The public base includes 60,000 free prints and more than 200,000 sell for $3 each (and each one of them is for one person). Unfortunately, we didn’t have an opportunity to network with representatives of the Tenebris team, so we can’t say where the fingerprint database comes from. The updating of the database occurs one or several times a month. Public (free) prints are not good for working with Facebook Ads. You got to buy a new print for each new account.

The diversity of settings in the interface gives an opportunity to flexible set configuration to get a fingerprint. However, nobody can tell for sure how viable each generated configuration will be.

Of course, there is a bad part too – you can’t share the generated profiles with your friends and partners and can’t run the same copy of the program on different devices. By the way, many teams have so-called farmers – their main task is to prepare profiles for working with CPA-offers. Launching accounts isn’t farmer’s work, they only prepare accounts for work. The transfer of these accounts from farmers to buyers in Linken Sphere is a big problem. To work as a group of 5 people You need to buy 5 six-month copies of Linken Sphere at a price of $ 500 USD per subscription for a group of 5 people.

However, Linken Sphere offers some interesting and useful tools:

• Web Emulator. It is a mechanism to automate current tasks, aimed to improve the convenience and quality of obtaining the necessary cookies in sessions. It’s able in a multi-threaded mode to visit automatically the specified websites, being on the necessary number of pages during the specified time;
• Converter that allows you to upload collected cookies from a real browser to the Linken Sphere emulation;
• Paste-like a human. This function is designed to speed up copying without attracting the attention of AF systems. The built-in mechanism performs insertion from the buffer using random delays between inputs, thereby repeating the usual human input.

There is a trial version at a good price of $ 30 USD for 7 days. A week is enough for you to understand if you need such a service or not.

The Multilogin browser fingerprint platform is supported by a team of developers from Estonia. There are two available browsers: Stealthfox and Mimic , created on the basis of Firefox and Chromium. Initially, Multilogin was created as an app for managing multiple accounts in social networks and worked only with Firefox. Later, developers added some new anti-detection features and Firefox was replaced by the more advanced browsers. The transformation of the antidetection configuration interface from the browser to a separate app allowed the developers to solve problems with the interface complexity.

Multilogin can’t fully imitate the Safari browser, but it can emulate MacOS using Chrome and FireFox as browsers. Moreover, development on the basis of full browsers makes possible to add such features as installing plugins, auto-complete function and an ability to save your passwords. It is the best option if you are going to work with accounts for a long time.

The substitution of Canvas and WebGL prints occurs natively in the browser code, without using JS. Multilogin adds noises to the Alpha channel of the image color in Canvas. Moreover, it is considered that such a method can’t be detected by the identification systems. Today Multilogin uses 68th version Chrome engine (current version is 71) and so prints get the devices’ configuration from 68th to 71st. And these data comply with the current Multilogin database of its own prints.

Yes, Miltilogin has its own database of real user prints, which is updated in real time. Of course, the developers refused to tell the resources that collect prints, but hinted that these are the “entertainment segment” sites (not the ones with adult content). Moreover, Multilogin not only collects and constantly updates the current database of prints. Along with this, the indicators of the prints’ uniqueness are continuously being analyzed (as on https://browserleaks.com/canvas). And the distribution of prints is based on the user’s filters, collected analytics and the statistical probability of getting a print.

There is a pleasant bonus – the opportunity to work as a team and freely use the fingerprints of the “farmed” profiles on different machines within the same team. Buying a bunch of subscriptions is not necessary, just take the more expensive fare. And this is where Multilogin wins Linken Sphere, but the marketing element makes Linken Sphere the more popular solution.

Since Multilogin is being developed solely as a solution for Internet marketing, you will not find WebEmulators or other tools for illegal actions here.

Finally, let’s talk about price. Multilogin has a free trial period of 14 days. Since Facebook cookies are stored on the unknown devices for exactly 14 days (Before registration. If the device didn’t register or login to the system, this set of cookies will be deleted and overwritten), you have enough time to blind the account and launch an ad campaign.

We want to note that this article doesn’t aim to designate one solution as the best. This guide has only educational (not advertising) purposes. The publication doesn’t contain any advertising links or calls for the acquisition, only analysis.

Also, we do not urge anyone to use the above software for illegal and fraudulent purposes.

Finally, the topic of identifying users on a network can be much broader and deeper than we understand it. If you have any questions or comments – please post them in a comment so we all can study the question more deeply and more expertly.

Canvas is an HTML5 API which is used to draw graphics and animations on a web page via scripting in JavaScript. JS-scripts gives the parameters of an image and browser, using resources of a device, renders the image. The point is that the same canvas image may be rendered differently in different computers. It may depend on the operating systems, version of a browser, installed libraries, video cards’ drivers, graphical adapters, etc.

This is the moment when you should meet such a thing as uniqueness score. This rating shows how many devices have the same hash print as yours. The more devices have the same print, the lower your uniqueness score. For example, if 5000 devices have the same hash print per every 100.000 devices then they are unique by 95%.  The lower this figure, the better. Is it clear? Good, moving on.

Canvas print data are enough to determine the user’s uniqueness with a figure higher than 95%. “Apple” users are doing better. Apple devices are usually custom and their uniqueness is lower by default. That is why Google and Facebook farmers tend to use their old MacBook for their dirty practices.

Until recently, antidetect services have been dealing with Canvas fingerprinting by changing the pixel color attributes. Even small changes are enough to change the hash print. However, this method has its shortcomings. Of course, hash changes and Facebook can’t find a connection between your device and other blocked profiles. But your uniqueness score will be 100% (or almost so). At best, your print will coincide with the prints of other users of the same antidetect service. But this will not help much. It’s like wear a Batman mask and walk around town. Of course, no one will see your real face but everyone will look at you like you are an idiot.

Moreover, Facebook can match the specified rendering parameters and the process of rendering different images in the browser and, thus, can find a forgery of hash print. So Facebook will understand that you are a user of an antidetect service. And it won’t bode well.

WebGL is JavaScript API, it uses more than 300 simple primitive functions for rendering more complex 3D images with the OpenGL library. You can get a different number of the metadata parameters depending on the video card. The tests say that because of JS, Facebook receives only those parameters that are needed to render an image correctly on a device. There is no complete WebGL fingerprinting process. But it doesn’t mean that other services (that Facebook uses) do not as well.

Changing print is performed by changing the transparency of colors. Unfortunately, you can find any public WebGL print data for comparison. But we can assume that the uniqueness of such modified print will be almost 100% as well. Moreover, WebGL and Canvas can literally check one another because complex 3D images consist of more simple 2D images. The difference between Canvas and WebGL rendering makes Facebook 100% sure that somebody wears a Batman mask.

WebRTC is a browser standard which allows users to make audio and video calls right in the browser, without using another software. Very useful but not so safe. A website can get the information about an audio adapter and all the audio devices like webcam, microphone, speakers. However, the devices’  producers supply them with hash identification. So, Facebook knows not just about the existence of a device but it knows their ID as well. Also, the browser leaks your local and public IP-addresses (bypassing VPN, of course).

Seems like every person in the right mind should turn WebRTC off once and forever. But! Disabled WebRTC is a wake-up call for every antifraud system because normal users don’t turn it off so this may add you a few percents of uniqueness.

Antidetect of the system can change both local and public IP-addresses in the WebRTC interface but you can’t make audio and video calls anymore (using your browser, of course). You can find more info about WebRTC here: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc#webrtc-device-id.

Fonts. By measuring the size of the text in HTML, overlaying texts on each other and other techniques, the antifraud systems can recognize the list of the installed fonts in the system. Some techniques force the browser to use the installed libraries to display texts. Depending on the operating system (GDI and DirectWrite for Windows, Core Text for MacOS and Pango for Linux), the libraries behave differently and it creates some further opportunities to determine the user’s system even using the emulators and anti-detect programs.

Modernizr – is a js-library that allows you to identify 290 features of a browser in a moment. The thing is that the set of these features may vary in different versions of a browser. Most people have an auto-update browser. So, using the early versions of Chrome and FireFox increases your uniqueness score, which is not good.

Fortunately (for us), anti-detect services always update the content of their browsers to the current versions of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.

Facebook doesn’t rely only on collecting and analyzing the data. Its primary strength is in dynamics, focus on analyzing the behavior of users and optimizing algorithms. That is why using identical consumables and typical schemes always lead to tighter control. WebGL metadata and Modernizr content (every print of two billion users) storage is extremely powerful technology. In turn, there is a global behavioral data-base already. They are used in the anti-fraud service of Facebook

Correct and careful use of identity protection services can be the basis for successful work. So what’s the deal if you can run black-hat campaigns and scale up if you can’t even launch lead type ads?

That’s it for today. Next time we will talk about antidetect services and how do they work. Stay tuned

According to Zuckerberg, the network’s antifraud is programmed to impose the maximum punishment for fake accounts. Sometimes Facebook doesn’t block fake accounts which it has already found, to find other accounts (which break the rules) using the recognition system and big-data analysis. Fair enough though – with the exception of data breaches, 99% of the network’s problems arise out of fake accounts. Zuck detects and blocks them on time, thus protecting his platform in general.

And we have to admit, he’s doing quite well.

Facebook relies more on the analysis of behavioral factors rather than on fingerprinting and user identification. The limit of the profile quality depends on the various combinations of three groups of factors: Facts – Connections – Actions. So, first things first.

Facts are the data (related to a Facebook profile) including the following info:

• Devices system configs (mobile and desktop). All the computers and mobile phones that were used to log in, visible connected devices (or visible within one wi-fi connection), devices within one IP range;
• All cookies, IP-addresses, DNS used and other elements of the network;
• Added payments instruments;
• The content of ad accounts (businesses, domains, apps, creative materials, etc.);
• The content of a profile (list of friends, a text of messages, groups, fanpages etc.). All the data from the security panel that you can download (My Facebook Information tab).

Connections are the links Facebook may establish that related to a profile as well:

• All cases of a match of facts with other accounts;
• All identical (or almost identical) actions with other accounts.

Actions are the consistent activity of devices, connected with a profile, during which facts and connections are emerging.

Facebook collects all three data-bases. They are connected to each other and regulate one another. Eventually, the system assigns a quality indicator (based on the analysis of the data) to every network’s user. Facebook calls it USER_TRUST while Google calls it Quality Score.

And there raise two interesting questions:

1. How to organize actions in your account in such a way that they would act differently than other fake accounts?
2. How to achieve a sufficient level of anonymity when the system couldn’t find any connection or fact that matches with other accounts?

However, with regard to behavior, there are a lot of different guides (based on experience and practice of other moneymakers) on how to create an account before registration, after registration, and before the first ad campaigns. But, unfortunately, we can’t say the same thing about the second question. Speaking of anonymity and confrontation the antifraud systems – it’s not that easy.

As we said before, 99% of Facebook problems are made by fake accounts. Spam, credit card fraud, black-hat marketing, social engineering, angry russian hackers – all of this is the work of fake accounts. And a man would be an idiot to add a stolen credit card using his real name.

Obviously, such a big platform as Facebook uses the most advanced identification technologies. The network starts watching you before you create an account there. Up-to-date farming methods take into account cookie analysis and visiting websites with Facebook Pixel. Otherwise, a successful launching is not assured.

Modern identification systems are based on the fingerprintjs technology developed by Valentin Vasilyev 5 years ago: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs. Facebook Antifraud includes the collection of data on users (using fingerprinting) and receiving information from other services (which also use fingerprinting). All the data are collected on the principle of “Facts – Connections – Actions” and then Facebook AI takes the lead. It processes the information and ranks it on the “USER_TRUST” concept.

The most efficient way to identify a user is the js-requests to Canvas, WebGL and WebRTC interfaces. The data obtained are transformed into hashes which make up the combined print of a user. We will consider the way of deceiving the interfaces more closely in our next article! Stay tuned