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That looks great. I already use an adblocker, but playing a small part in interfering with their pay-per-click mechanisms sounds much more compelling. Are ther
by crumbshot 6y ago
That looks great. I already use an adblocker, but playing a small part in interfering with their pay-per-click mechanisms sounds much more compelling.
Are there any downsides to using this?
- thatguy0900 6y agoAs others have said, any service doing fraud prevention might ban you. It doesn't seem to be happening yet, but that could change any time it got popular and they would be pretty justified doing it.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoSince when is clicking on something but not looking at it fraud?
- thatguy0900 6y agoI know you're being obtuse, but the fraud is that someone is paying for you to look at those ads. You're under no obligation to actually do it, of course, and the site is under no obligation to let you use it, hence the ban.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoI just reacted to the term 'fraud' which is a legal term that has a clearly defined meaning. If it was really fraud it would be implied to be illegal. It's not a nice thing to do but it's not illegal.
- nomel 6y agoIf you're goal is to get the pages, that you value enough to view, to move to some other way to get money from your use of their service (which I assume you think should be free), then there's no downside.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoWell by clicking on the ads it's pretty likely the site gets more money.