What prevents you from putting ads on a webpage and then giving yourself clicks through proxies?
Sounds like easy money to me
>>1494913
no one has ever thought of this before, certainly not ad providers
>>1494926
I did ask what prevents one from doing it
Well, what do ad providers do to prevent such scams?
>>1494930
detect behaviour like someone just clicking on a link and immediately bouncing, along with ip and cookie tracking, stuff like tor exit nodes and public proxies are likely monitored too
>>1494935
See, this is all things that sound like they could be dealt with with a little creative thinking, a budget and pretty basic programming skills.
>>1494942
how much money are you going to spend to get 0.0006c per click?
anyway if you're giving 10 million clicks per day with 0 actions you're gonna get cut off, and most ad services require a minimum amount of traffic before you can even sign up
>>1494942
just create a botnet of thousands of PCs and let them run a script randomly that emulates a browser without a gui and clicks your shitty ad links.
>>1494951
People have done this for a long time
>>1494913
This negro is right >>1494964
You can do it for a while Then the networks will can you. So you best be an expert on obfuscation, and you better have loads of payment methods available.
At the end of the day, ad networks are not paragons of "fairness". If you are sending traffic and it does not convert, they will can you.
As soon as your network checks the traffic quality, ur fucked m8
Click slamming was a real problem in 2003.