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We need to get it to 99.99%, and then maybe they will all switch to some honest business model!
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If the ads are billed per period of time and not per-click or per-view then "fraud" doesn't matter; all that matters is the overall ROI; if the advertiser gets more business than what it cost them to run the ad they will consider it a worthwhile investment, otherwise they will stop advertising there forcing the publisher to adjust their prices and eventually those prices will reflect the true value (as in how much RO…
if you have 3 campaigns with 3 ad networks or ad platforms, how do you measure the ROI of the campaigns without tracking? How do you know if Facebook or pinterest is better ROI for your marketing budget?
You then just count the number of purchases from each campaign, compare that with the amount you spent on that campaign and there's your ROI.
I find it so weird idea that people really click on ads. I don't know if I've ever done so (intentionally). As such I would have expected more like 90% of clicks to be fraudulent.
I’ve never bought anything because of an advertisement.
Nowadays on search engines knowing that they're likely spending a dollar or two to reach me, I'll click to test the veracity of their targetting. If they're going to bid for people searching from X in country Y, they'll be needing an ROI and providing I'm genuinely interested in whatever X is, the ad is no problem.
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Some people aren't selfish assholes and want the sites they use to continue to exist.
I unblock ads on sites I find useful, use frequently and want to actively support. If the ads aren't obnoxious, they stay unblocked. Sites wouldn't exist without the users, so they should keep in mind user experience when deciding how to monetize.
Many people here confuse such a thing being possible with such a thing being morally justifiable.
If I'm going to see ads, I'd prefer targeted ones personally. Show me something I might want - product discover is actually hard, if an ad can show me something that solves a need/want I have that's great for me and for the company.
AdSense then proceeded to push just that one "Pebble Smartwatch" ad on me, everywhere. Even a page with multiple ad blocks just had several of them -- sometimes all of them -- the same text ad for Pebble. It became more annoying than helpful because I was already going to buy one, it just tried to push me to buy it for a higher price.
I turned ad personalization off again and now any ads I get are mostly just related to the current page's content.
adnauseam.io i don't know how many people actually install this extension, but it is specifically designed to clicks ads so you don't have to :)
That looks great. I already use an adblocker, but playing a small part in interfering with their pay-per-click mechanisms sounds much more compelling. Are there any downsides to using this?
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How is breaking the mechanism that makes the internet free be producing tons of fraudulent clicks "awesome" in any way?
You see, the main reason I block ads isn't because I disagree with advertising. Advertising itself is fine. I block ads because: - They are often bloated with CPU-intensive JavaScript that makes my web experience less than smooth. I demand that scrolling and other UI actions be imperceptibly fast, and 90% of the time I find it's ads that are the culprit in making them perceptibly slow. - They are often loaded with tr…