I totally thought this was going to be a different article on phantom clicks or botnet visitors. Been thinking about that case lately, and it makes a much bett

I totally thought this was going to be a different article on phantom clicks or botnet visitors. Been thinking about that case lately, and it makes a much better argument for me in terms of analytics. I realized that from my own perspective as a private citizen, I'm not sure if there's any way to prove that Google and Facebook are not falsifying my clicks. I face such an information disparity in bargaining. I literally depend on the company for the tools to monitor the company. "How many people downloaded my app? Arbitrary." Its a bit like trying to win against the NSA inside America, except they can already listen to every phone line (still finding stuff, yet another NSA leak today). It's just too easily Machiavellian. "We've got so many new user signups, and they all love your videos...post more content like that. All the rest of you are failures, because we can just bury your content and you'll never know."