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This is a strangely framed/toned article given the subject is run of the mill Fraud and not entrepreneurship as implied.
by frankydp 7y ago
This is a strangely framed/toned article given the subject is run of the mill Fraud and not entrepreneurship as implied.
- J-dawg 7y agoI know the term "fraud" is used throughout the article, but is this actually fraud in the legal sense? (I assume not). I certainly don't see it as anything approaching fraud in the ethical sense. Advertisers are paying for clicks / "views", and that's what they're getting. If people want to game that system I see that as entirely fair game.
- shkkmo 7y agoThe article is fairly careful not to call phone farming of inctivized add apps "fraud" directly (except for the first line). I'm not sure I would include the behavior discussed in the article under "Ad Fraud". Usually "Ad Fraud" refers schemes where someone hosts an Ad and then fraudulently delivers fake traffic/clicks to that Ad to get paid. My guess is that the real money and real players in this space are not running incentivized ad apps, but being paid to generate traffic for REAL Ad Fraud.
- jordache 7y agothis is not fraud