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> So the ad will be much, much louder. And you figure that'll make the ad-haters click it more? Also, that 10cent ad is much more ripe for the picking than th
by fineman 11y ago
> So the ad will be much, much louder.
And you figure that'll make the ad-haters click it more?
Also, that 10cent ad is much more ripe for the picking than the 1cent one. All of a sudden you're attracting click-fraud attention from far more sophisticated attackers. And driving more "normal people" to ask a techie to hide these annoying dancing bananas (and all others ads at the same time.)
I don't really think you've thought this through to the endgame.
- logicallee 11y agoI don't know. Consider television advertisements. A 90% fraud rate (false, fraudulent, invented impressions) versus a 0% fraud rate baked into impression numbers reported to advertisers surely would affect how much sales movement they have to show, doesn't it? I mean sure, as the other comment pointed out cpc prices must in some sense rationally reflect the fraud amount. But nobody is perfect, no market is perfectly rational and efficient, and at the end of the day the quality of advertisement that next to no real person sees must be different from one where every impression paid for gets seen by a real person... (including you and me.) It would be a strange world otherwise.