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This reminds me of how Google does nothing about AdWords frauds: try to forget disabling third-world countries and your website will all of a sudden be most pop
by nkkollaw 10y ago
This reminds me of how Google does nothing about AdWords frauds: try to forget disabling third-world countries and your website will all of a sudden be most popular in Nigeria and Afghanistan (that's what they said when I confronted them about it, that people in Nigeria where interested in the content even though it was in Italian).
I guess when a big percentage of a company's profits come from fraud, they're not incentivised to fix the problem.
- nrjdhsbsid 10y agoWha? This is pure stupidity. If you choose to show ads in third world countries AdWords will show them constantly in those areas since the cost per click is so low. It's not their fault you used the default setting to minimize cost per click then turned on ads in places you weren't at all interest in.
- nkkollaw 10y agoSince you're so bright, perhaps you can enlighten me as to why in a system that works, even with default settings most clicks will come from only 2 countries (but mostly Nigeria) out of 1000 other countries (including low-cost clicks), and why it would make sense from a Nigerian to click on an ad in Italian. Then, there's the problem of multiple (up to 10) clicks from the same IP within a couple of seconds. Last, why in Nigeria they only stay on websites for a fraction of a second, even though they scroll to the bottom of the page (which regular users often don't do).