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I wonder if it'd make sense to have a plugin that'd share ad links in a p2p network just to screw with these people.

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  That's click-fraud, and Google at least attempts to identify it (so they're not charging for false ad views). No idea if they share the "That click was fraud" signal with their clients for this kind of display ad.
  • alienfilesystem 6y ago
    What about AdNauseum? Same basic premise.
  • heimatau 6y ago
    Click fraud sounds like an ominous term. But let's be real here. We aren't truly opting into all this tracking. I'd rather call it anonymous clicks. As for Google trying to resist it, I strongly suspect there isn't a network actively trying to give privacy back to the people. On a related tangent, CloudFlare creating a Google Analytics tracker could help lessen Google's tracking. But this battle should've been waged about 10 years ago. It's a shame that Hydra has many formidable heads.
  • frenchyatwork 6y ago
    I think that calling ad-sharing "click-fraud" is a little ridiculous. I can understand why someone would call an extension like AdNauseam click-fraud, but this would presumably be people legitimately clicking on the ad.
    • shadowgovt 6y ago
      I'm using the industry technical term, in the sense that the algorithms that could protect an advertiser from screwing up their metrics already exist to protect Google from screwing up the payment model.