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Keep in mind that to Google's ad fraud department, this would be considered ad fraud by creating a bot that clicks on it's own ads. If you were in Google's ad
by codeddesign 10y ago
Keep in mind that to Google's ad fraud department, this would be considered ad fraud by creating a bot that clicks on it's own ads. If you were in Google's ad fraud department, what would you do? Would you say "yes, this extension is ok to be distributed by us"?
- cpcallen 10y agoGoogle isn't distributing the extension. Chrome is uninstalling a manually-installed extension. This situation is somewhat akin to OS X uninstalling Spotify.
- neolefty 10y ago> This situation is somewhat akin to OS X uninstalling Spotify. Yes, Spotify and AdNauseum disrupt iTunes and Google, but I don't think it's a fair comparison because Spotify is a competitor (in that it provides music) whereas AdNauseum doesn't compete with any Google products, but just disrupts them.
- DannyBee 10y agoIt would be more akin to uninstalling an itunes app that just requests hundreds of random streams from itunes servers even though the user isn't listening to them.
- codeddesign 10y agoYou are right, that's my goof. However, the basic premise is the same. It's not as if they just do not like the people who made it, the extension literally commits "ad fraud" through fake clicks on ads.