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Presumably the ad clicks are making money for the apps/sites that are displaying the ads.

• treis 6y ago
  I have a memory of doing that 20 years ago as a pre-teen to make my friend like 50 cents.
  • zaroth 6y ago
    Many 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 ago
      I 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 ago
        Your 14 year old self learned the core lesson of business success.
    • GrumpyNl 6y ago
      Thats how i made my first 10k on the web, still have the check:)