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If everyone on HN started clicking on every single ad we saw, would that be enough to break Google’s ad algos? At some point if every single ad is clicked on, t
by remote_phone 6y ago
If everyone on HN started clicking on every single ad we saw, would that be enough to break Google’s ad algos? At some point if every single ad is clicked on, then things wouldn’t work right? Is that not the proper solution to this problem? I’ve started doing that to hopefully make Google think I’m a fraudulent user. If tens of thousands of people started clicking on every single ad, it seems like that would be enough to wildly set their algos off and force a re-evaluation of what they are doing. Maybe if it was a concerted plan like “click on every ad month until Google fixes themselves” it might have even more impact.
- viraptor 6y agoThe cost for the click would be adjusted and someone would have to adjust the baseline in their report for a while. I don't think much would change otherwise.
- jefftk 6y agoSounds like you're describing https://adnauseam.io https://adnauseam.io Both the behavior of this extension and the behavior that you describe, however, seem pretty easy to deal with in an automated way? (Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, though I don't know how clickspam is handled)
- danielheath 6y agoYou know what happens to “fraudulent users“? No gmail, no sign in with google, no play store.
- perl4ever 6y agoI started using the inurl: feature to search for things, and Google started telling me I was a bot like every third search and requiring me to do another captcha. It was pretty horrifying; while I get that 99.9% of people don't use it, it was like a glimpse of a future where the AIs watch constantly for anyone who can add 2 + 2 without help and then alarms go off.