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I imagine a social media site full of bots chatting about nonsense. Hidden in the nonsense are humans chatting about different nonsense. This way, server cost
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I imagine a social media site full of bots chatting about nonsense. Hidden in the nonsense are humans chatting about different nonsense. This way, server costs get paid for by advertisers, but its really only bots that see the ads anyway.
- spullara 2y agoif the ads aren't effective people won't buy them
- eviks 2y agoPeople have been buying ineffective ads since the invention of ads
- spullara 2y agozero clicks is a little different
- eviks 2y agoBots do click in real ad fraud, so your moved goalpost isn't all that solid
- spullara 2y agosorry, conversions is really what I meant. if the bots are also buying the stuff then it would work.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI'm not really concerned with whether it would work out in a way that was beneficial for the ad network or their customers. Either they figure out a way to make it work such that they continue to be a useful pipe, or they don't and then maybe they'll have to shut down and find something more productive to do with their time. We'll have done the public a service either way.
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoNot really, advertising is really the only field of human endeavour that is both data-driven and results-oriented. (Doesn't still stop smart people from committing fraud, but that is a different story.)
- benterix 2y agoUnfortunately I beg to differ. I worked for several companies where we the management clearly saw that the results were very poor (for Facebook ads, for example) but continued to invest because there is a defined budget for it and so on. It was like this last year and 20 years ago.
- jazzyjackson 2y agothese companies should be outcompeted by firms that don't blow a million dollars a month paying out to click fraudsters but alas the market is not perfectly competitive is it a cargo cult? it works for coca cola so maybe if we just spend a little more we'll see returns...
- benterix 2y agoYes, I feel it might be cargo cult, at least in part. The argument I usually heard was that "But other companies are doing that, too".
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoYes, most fraud is inside the corporate structure. Not shady "hacker" types in Romania.
- j16sdiz 2y agoIt's called Twitter. It's no nonsense, just catvideo and porns.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoHmm yes, sensical things those. Are you proposing that they're really only posted as a medium for encoding something else that we're not privy to? If so, somebody took my idea.