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First, "adbotage", what great word. Second: I am wracking my brain trying to think of a way to defend against this Why not think of a way to perform this atta

First, "adbotage", what great word. Second: I am wracking my brain trying to think of a way to defend against this Why not think of a way to perform this attack? Despite almost zero charisma, the No Kings people organized a truly massive, non-violent protest. Who can you get to pull off mass market adbotage? Once you've got a credible mechanism, you've got a better idea of how to defend. Maybe go so far as to try to make adbotage happen. The first few attempts will fail or have problems, but produce enough ad clickers that you'll stress test the system.

jesse_dot_id 1y ago
Well, the way to perform the attack is to organize millions of people with instructions to click on every ad they see. That's not really my thing. I think to try and do it programmatically would make it trivial to filter for talented engineers. However, my question is how would they defend against it if people were manually clicking on ads with their free time? I'm not sure how it would be possible.