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Is there a service where I can host a raspi on my network and let people send it instructions about which ads should be clicked on and it gradually earns crypto

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  I'm not sure, but I'm going to note that click-fraud already exists and Google (as well as other ad networks) have countermeasures to determine whether your raspi is likely "clicking for fun" and chargeback the advertisers for the non-human clicks. Whether those countermeasures can be reliably defeated is left as an exercise for the raspi owner. ;)
  • cwkoss 6y ago
    Instead of enriching particular sites, I wonder if adding a bunch of click fraud could punish others. Does 10,000 clicks being detected as fraud only invalidate those 10k clicks or does google use heuristics so that those 10k get extrapolated and punishes the valid traffic as well? Can you send enough bathwater that they'll automatically throw out the baby?
    • shadowgovt 6y ago
      You're welcome to try. Google has well-compensated software engineers who's full-time job is to figure out shenanigans like that. I hear some of them even read Hacker News. ;)