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D. Create a whole bunch of VMs with browsers and “fake users” to DoS the whole ad-based business model.

• trasz 4y ago
  (Note: DoS not literally, of course, but by feeding it with so much fake metrics that the signal - metrics for actual, live users - gets lost in the noise.) Or perhaps forget about VMs, and have some kind of browser plugin that performs "fake browsing" - to throw off analytics - with your real cookies, but hidden from view, so it's not annoying to the live user browsing the web in the usual manner.
• teddyh 4y ago
  Some people might do this, but it will never be enough people to even register on the scales of the ad-funded businesses.