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Another solution is to click on every damn ad you are shown. Millions of people doing this to billions of ads will collapse the value and make this kind of adve
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
Another solution is to click on every damn ad you are shown. Millions of people doing this to billions of ads will collapse the value and make this kind of advertising a waste of money.
- codetrotter 6y agoTheres a browser extension that can do this for you if you feel so inclined. https://adnauseam.io https://adnauseam.io I've never used it myself so I don't know if it still works but I remember reading about it here on HN a few years ago or so. I think however that if it even still works there is a risk that you may start being prompted with a lot more CAPTCHAs. But again, haven't tried it so don't know if that would happen or not.
- doopy1 6y agoThat won't work. Clicks are not the currency of digital ads, if everyone does this, it's an easy baseline to account for and eliminate the noise. It's a "cute" idea though that's not even a little bit disruptive.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoAdvertisers pay for clicks, noise or not. See the Facebook scandal for example.
- doopy1 6y agoAdvertiser only pay for clicks when it comes to search ads, but there's a whole other world of display advertising. Marketers run campaigns with different strategies, direct response, sales, etc. 99% of ads are bought and sold on views anyway. I'll admit I was hyperbolic when I said this will have 0 impact. It w.ill be annoying, but it won't really make an impact in the grand scheme of things in my opinion. Source: I've worked in ad tech since 2005.