If you offered most people free streaming for a $37 USB stick but directly told them it would be faking ad clicks when the TV is off, would any of them really care?

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ajnin 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe they wouldn't care about the ads but the residential proxy is another story. I'm sure lots of problematic stuff goes through that and you take the risk of being associated with it.

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1970-01-01 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, and that's is the root of the problem. The buyer is happy and so is the seller. They don't care to understand what they're allowing and everyone is allowing it to happen.

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bayarearefugee an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I wouldn't use a device like this for a lot of reasons, but the fact that what they are doing might be taking advantage of the incredibly predatory digital advertising system is neutral to positive for me, if I'm being fully honest.

If they were using the system to rip off random people, I'd be 100% against it, if they are fucking Google and the giant corps that advertise with them, ehh.. not my problem and can't be assed to care. Google is not a positive force in the world. Hasn't been for many years.

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mschild an hour ago | parent [-]

Wouldn't this ultimately make money FOR Google and only cost money to the company that placed the ad?

Sure, Google's paying but they get their money regardless.

	▲	chowells 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It might damage Google's reputation with advertisers in the long term. I'm not convinced Google would even care about it, given their other behavior.

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GolfPopper 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They're just meeting the standards American society has set.

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Scroll_Swe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah yes there was no rampant piracy in eastern europe during/after Soviet lmao

Tankies like this make me laugh

	▲	dang 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, and also please stop using HN primarily for political/ideological battle? These things are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for, so we ban accounts that do them repeatedly. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.