Paywall Abuse Prevention: Protect Access and Reading Limits
Prevent paywall abuse with server-side entitlements, safe caching and persistent reading limits. Separate content leaks from account sharing.
Vladislav Puhalsky is a Product Manager at ShieldLabs with 10 years of experience in product development and launching digital products.
Vladislav Puhalsky's articles
Fraud Decisioning vs Fraud Detection: Choose the Right Layer
Compare fraud decisioning platforms with detection tools. Follow evidence to an action, define timeout behavior and test decisions without inventing accuracy.
Fraud Analytics: Reading Device and Risk Patterns in Web Traffic
Use fraud analytics to investigate risk signals, account events and traffic sources. Read dashboard units correctly and join evidence to real outcomes.
Personalization for anonymous visitors: recognizing returning visitors without a login
How to personalize for returning visitors who are not logged in, by recognizing their device with a durable identifier that holds without cookies.
New vs returning visitors: what a good ratio is, and why the number is only as good as your cookies
New vs returning visitors benchmarks, how to compare your site with relevant peers, and why cookie loss can distort the ratio.
Seat sharing in SaaS: how to detect it and turn sharers into seats
How to detect seat sharing in a SaaS product: spotting one paid seat used by a whole team, the per-seat revenue it leaks, and how to convert sharers.
How to prevent online travel fraud: the types and the actor behind them
What online travel fraud is, the main types from stolen-card bookings to miles theft and fake listings, and how the device behind a booking ties them together.
How to prevent coupon abuse (and tell it from coupon fraud)
How to prevent coupon abuse: what separates it from coupon fraud and everyday couponing, and how merchants catch one shopper using many accounts.
How to prevent bonus, promo, and coupon abuse: a detection playbook for developers
How to prevent bonus, promo, and coupon abuse: the mechanic behind it, the signals that flag an abused offer, and how to score a claim before you credit it.
How to identify anonymous traffic and visitors
How to identify anonymous traffic and recognize returning visitors hidden behind VPNs, proxies, Tor, Private Relay, and anti-detect browsers.
How to prevent multi-accounting and stop fraud
How to prevent multi-accounting: detect one person operating many accounts, why IP-based detection fails, and how ready detection stops it.
How to detect account sharing?
Detect account sharing with device intelligence, login activity and automatic detections. Review device history and account for legitimate multi-device use.