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A lot of people here are speculating on what makes this illegal. The vast majority of the times, this will not be pursued by anyone if the operation is small ti
by bongoman37 6y ago
A lot of people here are speculating on what makes this illegal. The vast majority of the times, this will not be pursued by anyone if the operation is small time. If the operation is large, the actual reason for going after them may be things like money laundering, running a botnet by having unauthorized access to a device or things like that.
App developers can also achieve higher number of clicks by incentivizing users to click on ads by e.g., offering an extra life in a game if you click. This can drive up the click thru rate at the expense of lowering the rate of post click events. This is usually not allowed by advertisers but sometimes they are okay with it.
Also, not everyone minds some fraud. VC driven companies may only care about clicks or new user sign ups, regardless of how good the users are because that's the metric they are targeting.
- cyberlab 6y ago> VC driven companies may only care about clicks or new user sign ups, regardless of how good the users are because that's the metric they are targeting. That could bite them in the ass further down the road, when these bot farms are exposed by researchers. There was a few well researched bot farms on Twitter that are now defunct as Twitter dismantled them and now forces you to use a phone number to register an account, limiting attempts by people who want to create sockpuppet armies.