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App owners who make money off serving ads are incentivized to do this (and have frequently been caught doing this).
by tlarkworthy 7y ago
App owners who make money off serving ads are incentivized to do this (and have frequently been caught doing this).
- cameronc56 7y agoIf anyone's interested, the term is called click fraud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud
- droopyEyelids 7y agoA FTP game can do a TON to encourage people to download apps that'll never be opened without committing clickfraud.
- AndrewGreen 7y agoGosh I'm old. Spent a while there trying to figure out how File Transfer Protocol could be relevant to clickfraud.
- geerlingguy 7y agoAh, me too. For those still confused, "Free To Play"
- nocman 7y agoWell, don't feel bad. I did the exact same thing, except I had the benefit of your post and its anscestor replies, so I wasted less time. You don't have to be old -- we still use FTP all the time at my job. Of course, whenever we have a say we use some secure variant, but you don't always have a say (no matter how much you yell, grumble, sermonize about the dangers of insecure tech, etc). Of course, you probably meant you feel old because "FTP" didn't immediately register to you as "Free To Play". Well, I can't help you there, because by that standard I guess I'm pretty old too. :-D
- smolder 7y agoI usually see it written F2P for free to play, which cuts down on ambiguity.
- wil421 7y agoI thought the same. An FTP game? What have I been missing.
- Tepix 7y agoThe correct acronym is F2P, not FTP for „free to play“
- edeion 7y agoPlease, let's bring back sharewares instead of this mess. Unplausible, I guess. Impossible, I'll hear. Whatever.