Blog
Updates, methodology notes, and examples from the DecryptAds team.
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AI Recipe Slop Networks Are Being Monetized Through Russian and Chinese Ad Tech
DecryptAds mapped more than 2,100 made-for-advertising recipe sites — many with AI author photos and fake back stories — that authorize Russian and Chinese ad tech through outsourced ads.txt managers.
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The Ad Tech Industry is a Non-Transparent Mess, and DecryptAds Aims to Do Something About It
DecryptAds launch: geo-risk, legal dossier, data brokers, quiet removals, MFA scoring, and how to start exploring the corpus.
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What DecryptAds analyzes — and why it matters
Programmatic advertising is hard to see end-to-end. Here’s how DecryptAds turns ads.txt, sellers.json, and bid logs into research-grade evidence — auto-investigation, publisher and ad-system profiles, geo-risk, quiet removals, and more.
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How to use the API
Get a token, send it in a header, and make your first curl or Postman request.
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Using DecryptAds with MCP
Connect Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT to the hosted MCP bridge at mcp.decryptads.com.