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When I’m annoyed with an ad, I love clicking on it, especially since a click can cost from $.5 to $12. Also, upon clicking, they build a profile of me based on

When I’m annoyed with an ad, I love clicking on it, especially since a click can cost from $.5 to $12. Also, upon clicking, they build a profile of me based on products I don’t like, so all the better. Tough for the advertiser, but maximizing advertiser dissatisfaction is also in my interest (at least since I don’t advertise anymore - after an important realization that I had poured money into it for very few actual new customers).

the_pwner224 6y ago
https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
- Apocryphon 6y ago
  Could use of this be detected by the ad networks and get filtered out?
  - bigiain 6y ago
    It _could_... But the ad networks get paid for those clicks, so while businesses keep buying ads from a known[1] mostly fraudulent industry, they will not. 1: "Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858
  - renewiltord 6y ago
    It's usually detected by anti-click-fraud stuff (since it's the same UA, cookies, and IP that's mass whacking ads, it's the easy case). However, the users of the tool occasionally intend to punish the publishers (people who put these ads on their sites) which does happen for some low volume publishers - like your buddy's blog with AdSense and stuff.
    - wizzwizz4 6y ago
      Set it further towards the “rarely” setting, and this is less likely.
- nalekberov 6y ago
  I usually block all known trackers and advertisers, so even if they could track me (which is less likely to happen) they don't get any benefit from that.
Judgmentality 6y ago
This sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face. Sure, you may be harming the advertisers, but you are directly reinforcing the ecosystem that creates those annoying ads in the first place by telling them you like those ads. I hate ads too, but let's not pretend like this childish rebellion is actually self-serving. It's like me saying I'm upset with politics so I'll show the world by not voting.
- s1artibartfast 6y ago
  How does clicking an add in bad faith reinforce the ecosystem? How does thinking you like the product benefit the advertiser or market?
  - missedthecue 6y ago
    Platform: wow people click ads more often than organic results. We should put more ads in there.
  - JacobSuperslav 6y ago
    they are not going to notice anyway. just look how difficult it was for Uber
oever 6y ago
That $.5 to $12 goes to big tech. That's only a win in the case of very vile advertisers.

the_pwner224 6y ago

https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/

Apocryphon 6y ago
Could use of this be detected by the ad networks and get filtered out?
- bigiain 6y ago
  It _could_... But the ad networks get paid for those clicks, so while businesses keep buying ads from a known[1] mostly fraudulent industry, they will not. 1: "Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858
- renewiltord 6y ago
  It's usually detected by anti-click-fraud stuff (since it's the same UA, cookies, and IP that's mass whacking ads, it's the easy case). However, the users of the tool occasionally intend to punish the publishers (people who put these ads on their sites) which does happen for some low volume publishers - like your buddy's blog with AdSense and stuff.
  - wizzwizz4 6y ago
    Set it further towards the “rarely” setting, and this is less likely.
nalekberov 6y ago
I usually block all known trackers and advertisers, so even if they could track me (which is less likely to happen) they don't get any benefit from that.

Judgmentality 6y ago

This sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face. Sure, you may be harming the advertisers, but you are directly reinforcing the ecosystem that creates those annoying ads in the first place by telling them you like those ads. I hate ads too, but let's not pretend like this childish rebellion is actually self-serving. It's like me saying I'm upset with politics so I'll show the world by not voting.

s1artibartfast 6y ago
How does clicking an add in bad faith reinforce the ecosystem? How does thinking you like the product benefit the advertiser or market?
- missedthecue 6y ago
  Platform: wow people click ads more often than organic results. We should put more ads in there.
- JacobSuperslav 6y ago
  they are not going to notice anyway. just look how difficult it was for Uber

oever 6y ago

That $.5 to $12 goes to big tech. That's only a win in the case of very vile advertisers.