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>Why would Google not monetize unattested traffic? I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown. It's very simple. Google has concerns of
by nvy 3y ago
>Why would Google not monetize unattested traffic? I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown.
It's very simple. Google has concerns of click/impression fraud. Unattested traffic would be more likely to be fraudulent. Not paying for unattested impressions/clicks is therefore an easy way to cut costs and combat fraud.
- bagacrap 3y agoBut the usual HN paranoid anti-Google retort is that Google happily charges advertisers for fake ad impressions. Now if Google cares about real impressions it's still terrible no good very bad evil.
- Dylan16807 3y agoAre you usually this unreasonably dismissive of people? It's good for google to care, it's not good for them to do this.
- bagacrap 3y agoI don't even know who you think I'm dismissing. Mine is more of a generalized ennui directed at HN as a whole. I don't think Google has actually done anything. The bar for experimenting with new code in Chromium is pretty low. This Chicken Little reaction to a non-starter is just a result of developing in the open.
- Dylan16807 3y agoYour post implies that anyone against this attestation is just going "Google terrible no good very bad evil", because Google "caring about real impressions" is what they said they wanted. But you can "care" about something in good and bad ways, and the criticism is not "Google bad".