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"No you don't understand: invalid clicks are things that happen on other peoples properties. You definitely meant to click that ad in gmail. We know, we're goog
by FridgeSeal 6y ago
"No you don't understand: invalid clicks are things that happen on other peoples properties. You definitely meant to click that ad in gmail. We know, we're google, you can definitely trust us about this"
'Unfortunate UX design to 'improve' rendering' is the plausible-deniability they can use to justify this.
> This kind of corporate misbehavior is not unheard of, but I just can't imagine it happening at Google.
I definitely can, I don't think anywhere is immune to this once you reach a certain scale. They have a profit-motive to make money, they will absolutely try and get away with as much as they possibly can.