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What would the goal of the “users” (bots?) have been in this case? Is there any monetary gain for them? Would a competitor do this to waste your ad spend?
by gomoboo 6y ago
What would the goal of the “users” (bots?) have been in this case? Is there any monetary gain for them? Would a competitor do this to waste your ad spend?
- konschubert 6y agoI guess google pays a share of the money to owners of youtube channels/websites where the ads are displayed?
- gomoboo 6y agoI hadn’t thought of that angle. Seems that getting rid of this sort of problem is one of the reasons one would use an ad network.
- picodguyo 6y agoPresumably the ad clicks are making money for the apps/sites that are displaying the ads.
- treis 6y agoI have a memory of doing that 20 years ago as a pre-teen to make my friend like 50 cents.
- zaroth 6y agoMany of the adult-oriented ads paid upwards of $0.50/click. Your parents would definitely wonder why you were receiving checks in the mail from Xpics. Once I left the Visual Basic scripted web control running overnight by mistake...
- GordonS 6y agoI used to do the same thing, but I don't think any of them were adult sites. It was all done through some kind of ads broker, and the cheques came directly from them. Looking back, it was pretty shitty behaviour by me, but as a 14 year old boy, it just didn't even feel like a crime, even a victimsless one; it almost felt entrepreneurial.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoYour 14 year old self learned the core lesson of business success.
- GrumpyNl 6y agoThats how i made my first 10k on the web, still have the check:)