Comment by direwolf20

19 hours ago

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

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.

  • >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.

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