And which part of "ad fraud" is the fraud? As far as I can tell, ad networks and advertisers are the fraud and they are also part of the increasing surveillance state.

Didn't know Krebs was a mainstream news puppet.

It's called fraud because the ad host colludes with (or directly controls) the botnet to get lots of clicks on ads hosted on their sites, making them money at the expense of advertisers.

If you just want to spam clicks on ads you don't financially be edit from, go for it.