Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
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#2I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#3I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
The problem is that while this might work great on a large scale, it breaks down at the individual level: why would I want all that ad-clicking activity associated with my account / cookie / IP?
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#4I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
The problem is that while this might work great on a large scale, it breaks down at the individual level: why would I want all that ad-clicking activity associated with my account / cookie / IP?
Because you don't want the trackers to know your real activity?
It's pretty common now to do things like intentionally tagging the wrong friends in facebook because people are paranoid that facebook knows too much. Even with non-techie people. They're creeped out.
Throwing off retargeting is something a lot of people might want to do.
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#5So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams.
The bigger picture is virality. Nobody wants to watch your video with 100 views. Same video with 10M views, now everyone has to watch it.
The music business has been doing this so much for so long that it's to the point where I automatically distrust everything that's "popular" as having been gamed.
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#6I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
The problem is that while this might work great on a large scale, it breaks down at the individual level: why would I want all that ad-clicking activity associated with my account / cookie / IP?
The supposed value of the ad-clicking activity profile is that it pertains to you, if a bot is making your ad-click decisions your profile gets scrambled, ostensibly making you harder to target when ad-tech reaches new heights of persuasiveness...
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#7>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average of $13.04 per faked view.
Who on earth pays that kind of price to have someone watch their ad video? Serious question.
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#8>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average of $13.04 per faked view. Who on earth pays that kind of price to have someone watch their ad video? Serious question.
I think 13.04 would be the CPM, not per view. I'm not sure if that's high or low for video ads, but wanted to stress that number isn't per view. If it was, they would have made slightly more than $5mil. :)
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#9I've long wondered if the best ad blocker would be a client that simply randomly clicks ads instead of blocking them. If you send fake clicks and spoof looking like real activity, that will pressure both advertisers and the websites that display ads. If millions of people do this...
I get a cheap thrill out of clicking ads to make people pay.
Trump ad ... click Comcast ... click Ambulance chasing lawyer ... click click click
So that would be better than random - a plugin that clicks the ads for things you don't like or aren't interested in.
Re: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
#10So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams. The bigger picture is virality. Nobody wants to watch your video with 100 views. Same video with 10M views, now everyone has to watch it. The music business has been doing this so much for so long that it's to the point where I automatically distrust everything that's "popular"…
Can you elaborate how the music business is cheating? Are they tampering with the charts?