You're not clicking the button, you're sending a known fraudulent request saying the ad was clicked, when the ad was not clicked

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sharperguy 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I still wonder about that. I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't. The website operator does have such a contract and so cannot hire a bot farm to spam click the ads.

If it's something that's been held up in court already then of course I have to accept it, but I can't say the reason seems immediately intuitive.

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direwolf20 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's a very general law that says something about using a computer to cause money to move

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gruez 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't.

Charges of fraud doesn't require a contract to be in place. That's the whole point of criminal law, it's so that you don't need to add a "don't screw me over" clause to every interaction you make.

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general1465 13 hours ago | parent [-]

How is that a fraud, when I don't get any money from the scheme?

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gruez 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Gaining something isn't required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud#Civil_fraud

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general1465 6 hours ago | parent [-]

By this logic, vandalism would be fraud too.

	▲	gruez 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Vandalism involves making material misrepresentations?

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dsr_ 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

An AI agent did it. Obviously I can't be expected to watch over all the things it does.