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Excluding the personal attacks, which dilute what would have been a good alternative look at Facebook, I suggest everyone interested in this topic to look at th
by phantom_oracle 7y ago
Excluding the personal attacks, which dilute what would have been a good alternative look at Facebook, I suggest everyone interested in this topic to look at the other parts that make up the click-fraud industry:
- Clickfarms in China that have shady people using some automation and thousands of smartphones to perform fake clicks for the Chinese ad market
- Pied Piper style farms with people in poor countries sitting all day creating accounts (it was exaggerated in the series)
- The ad giants constant "battle" with click-fraud
- Shady tactics used by smaller app/websites to get people to accidentally click on ads
I wouldn't personally denounce all online advertising though. It has its place the same way print media advertising does. It's market-value is questionable though (which is derived from questionable "effectiveness" sales pitches we're told about online advertising)