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This could be a coordinated 4chan attack https://files.catbox.moe/6ueduv.png https://files.catbox.moe/6ueduv.png
by cft 9y ago
This could be a coordinated 4chan attack https://files.catbox.moe/6ueduv.png https://files.catbox.moe/6ueduv.png
- MichaelGG 9y agoYes, it's seen as, probably correctly, the only way to do anything that'll affect Google. Outside of getting laws changed, that is. It probably won't be effective - the people handling ad fraud are probably not the ones pushing their censorious politics. But hey, unlike most slacktivism, this causes them real damage. I imagine the response will be to ban people's Google accounts, for those dumb enough to sign in while using AdNauseum. (Anything more forensic might be a target for trolls.) We'll see if Firefox caves to pressure like Pale Moon did.
- cat199 9y agowhich, aside from being ironic, could create network effects to move people out of gapps and back towards more federated solutions.. things could get interesting.. or, more likely, they could not.
- tanilama 9y agoThere is no proof it does. Even before it Google has estimated the fraud traffic compositing of 20% to 30% of all its inventory. I think 4chan bros are too caught up with themselves to think that a bunch of ideologists can cause tens of billions of damage. http://www.businessinsider.com/thepartnership-msix-and-adloox-ad-fraud-2017-2017-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/thepartnership-msix-and-adloo...
- Drdrdrq 9y agoGive me a break. It is laughably easy, even trivial for Google to filter out such traffic.
- ManlyBread 9y agoHow? If the clicks are random, how does one filter them out and separate them from actual traffic?
- lugg 9y agoPeople don't click random ads at random times. Google has more than enough training data to pick up on this traffic with a high degree of accuracy using rudimentary machine learning.