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About 99% of the ads I’ve clicked on Reddit were by accident when I hit the back button and then try to click a link below an ad just as the page reflows to fit
by wlesieutre 3y ago
About 99% of the ads I’ve clicked on Reddit were by accident when I hit the back button and then try to click a link below an ad just as the page reflows to fit a taller ad and puts it under my cursor
- thih9 3y agoAn accident that happens repeatedly, its cause can be traced to a single actor, and that actor also benefits from all of instances of the accident. Ad tech is weird.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI think "all clicks are click fraud" comes pretty close to the truth. I have a love-hate relationship with this site https://www.anandtech.com/ https://www.anandtech.com/ which runs some great articles but also runs a stupid roundup on large HDDs every month where they don't do any research but scrape prices from AMZN. The thing is when I am visiting that site on mobile the content is always jiggling around, I think it is no accident because it means you want to click on a link but ka-ching you clicked on an ad.