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> But what I'm struggling to understand is where is the money coming from to run those bots? I agree, I have a hard time understanding the motivation for this
by burnte 1y ago
> But what I'm struggling to understand is where is the money coming from to run those bots?
I agree, I have a hard time understanding the motivation for this behavior. It's obviously happening, I just don't know how someone benefits from a bot pretending to browse the internet.
- bombcar 1y agoIsn't the idea that you run google ads on your site, and then have your botnet click the ads on your site, and you get paid for the traffic?
- KaiserPro 1y agoAha! that makes much more sense. Yeah having something autobot your click throughs seems like a motivation to run bots. I was thinking about ad traffic from one of the meta/twitter/tiktok products and couldn't think what the motivation would be
- burnte 1y agoIt would but the fact it goes out and does it to other sites is weird. Why would someone else fraudulently click my ads? As an attack, I understand that, I've had that done to me. Just randomly seems odd. Maybe I'm just not creative enough to think of bad things to do with this. :D