Just make your bot mimic the activity of a real human, and it won't take any more resources than a real human. And if you're crafty enough about it, no one wil

Just make your bot mimic the activity of a real human, and it won't take any more resources than a real human. And if you're crafty enough about it, no one will ever know (much less the advertisers, who are probably both clueless and don't bother to even try to check if real humans are using the site). The only problem is that most real humans probably earn a few grains of rice, get bored, and forget about the site. So a bot effectively mimicking a typical human user wouldn't be of much use (unless it was distributed on many different computers). Maybe some altruistic hackers could create a virus which installed ricebots on systems it infected. Though, unfortunately, that idea would likely backfire, as the ricebots would be quickly detected and that would generate negative PR.