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I know this is a loaded term, but I find it interesting that globalization plays a key role here. I would be surprised if the economics of click farms made sens
by munificent 6y ago
I know this is a loaded term, but I find it interesting that globalization plays a key role here. I would be surprised if the economics of click farms made sense without involving third-world employees generated ad revenue in first-world denominations.
Better wages in those countries would likely eliminate fraud like this. It's essentially an arbitrage opportunity to buy first-world denominated "attention currency" at third world click farm worker attention prices.
- T-hawk 6y agoRight. And one way to combat that is IP geolocation, show your ads only to a first world audience. Of course, then a VPN or other IP spoofing techniques will combat that.
- nitrogen 6y agoA friend-of-a-friend supposedly bought a bunch of cheap Android phones and ran apps that pay you to watch ads. IIRC it was only worth a couple hundred bucks a month.
- skinnymuch 6y agoThe amount keeps going down. In 2012, you could make into the hundreds a day. In 2014, you could make over a grand or two grand a month. In 2016, $500 or so. Until you get to 2019 when the number became pretty low. And so on. Also, if you can make a couple hundred a month. Then with just that info alone, there’s nothing but equivalent phones, an IP address, and bandwidth stopping you from doing that amount again.