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I remember the AllAdvantage.com cheat as well. It became so popular to game that one that not only were novel tactics like yours employed, but automatic mouse h

I remember the AllAdvantage.com cheat as well. It became so popular to game that one that not only were novel tactics like yours employed, but automatic mouse hijacking apps for Windows made some headway for those that didn't want to sit and click ads ad nauseum. I may have made a quick buck on this back in the early 2000s.

jtreminio 8y ago
There were programs that would run up the 40 hour weekly limit in seconds. I'm assuming AllAdvantage had no real sanity checking when receiving data, which to my eyes means they deserved to go out the way they did.
- Trav5 8y ago
  It was a game. The sanity checks were added and workarounds were formed...
Dave_TRS 8y ago
AllAdvantage was great while it lasted. My method as a highschooler was a free mouse trembler app, coupled with 4 rotating Geocities sites I made to auto-forwarded to each other in a loop every 45 seconds.
pmorici 8y ago
lol I remember AllAdvantage; I had a set of programmable Legos and I made a little jig that would sit there and spin a wheel under the mouse ball back and forth.
userbinator 8y ago
click ads ad nauseum There is a browser extension that does this for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611594 It was removed from Chrome's appstore, so it must be very effective... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228 ...and shows very clearly whose side they're on.
- duncan_bayne 8y ago
  "So, an advertising company that used to have a motto about not being evil, but abandoned it, built a web browser." Realistically that wasn't going to end any other way :)
- aiCeivi9 8y ago
  On site owners site? That extensions likely punishes owners of sites visited by you by suspending their ad network account for click fraud. I can see how that might be considered harmful.

jtreminio 8y ago

There were programs that would run up the 40 hour weekly limit in seconds. I'm assuming AllAdvantage had no real sanity checking when receiving data, which to my eyes means they deserved to go out the way they did.

Trav5 8y ago
It was a game. The sanity checks were added and workarounds were formed...

Dave_TRS 8y ago

AllAdvantage was great while it lasted. My method as a highschooler was a free mouse trembler app, coupled with 4 rotating Geocities sites I made to auto-forwarded to each other in a loop every 45 seconds.

pmorici 8y ago

lol I remember AllAdvantage; I had a set of programmable Legos and I made a little jig that would sit there and spin a wheel under the mouse ball back and forth.

userbinator 8y ago

click ads ad nauseum There is a browser extension that does this for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611594 It was removed from Chrome's appstore, so it must be very effective... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228 ...and shows very clearly whose side they're on.

duncan_bayne 8y ago
"So, an advertising company that used to have a motto about not being evil, but abandoned it, built a web browser." Realistically that wasn't going to end any other way :)
aiCeivi9 8y ago
On site owners site? That extensions likely punishes owners of sites visited by you by suspending their ad network account for click fraud. I can see how that might be considered harmful.