What if someone unironically wants to automatically click all the ads to support the websites they visit

billyp-rva 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You'd be doing way more harm than good. The battle between ad networks and unscrupulous website owners using bots to fake ad clicks has been going on forever.

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freitasm 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.

	▲	c22 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think the question was about whether this would actually help the advertisers. (I suspect it was rhetorical.) Of course the defense will now be harder to execute for anyone who reads this thread.

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rvnx 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some sort of Robinhood of advertising, taking from the big, to give to the small