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this is so crazy it might work. Automatically sending the click beacon for every blocked ad will increase advertising costs but it will also increase vendor pr
by gcb0 10y ago
this is so crazy it might work.
Automatically sending the click beacon for every blocked ad will increase advertising costs but it will also increase vendor profits, motivating them to add even more ads.
Until the 3rd party click validators start to filter out clicks generated by this somehow. And then we will have yet another arms-race besides the adblockers one.
- lotsoflumens 10y agoWe are all going to need a lot more bandwidth!
- gcb0 10y agobandwidth nowadays is a given. the only problem now is latency. but we don't care about that for background stuff.
- lotsoflumens 10y agoSo true! Latency may be very difficult to reduce given our reliance on the internet protocol.
- eli 10y agoNot really. It mostly just devalues the ad units. Since none of these fake clicks result in any action on the advertiser's site, the per-click price the advertiser is willing to spend goes way down. And at least in its current implementation, I would guess most 3rd party click validators already filter it out. (disclaimer: ad-supported news sites pay my bills)