Comment by rvnx
1 day ago
I mean, (not to you, as we go in the same direction, in general), just block it.
The goal of Adnauseam was to hurt Google, and other big adnetworks, from what I understand.
By blocking:
-> Advertiser is not harmed
-> For the adnetwork: No ad revenue
-> Publisher is not harmed
-> Pages load faster
--> Google is earning less (if this is part of your ideological fight) and you get rewarded with a better experience, and you are legally safe
==
With fake clicks:
-> Advertiser is harmed
-> Publisher is harmed
-> Adnetwork is okayish with the situation (to a certain point)
-> You hurt websites and products that you like (or would statistically like)
--> Google is accidentally earning more revenue (at least temporarily, until you get shadow-banned), your computer / page loads slows down and you enter a legally gray area.
(+ the side-note below: clicking on every ads leak your browsing history because in the URL there is a unique tracking ID that connects to the page you are viewing)
"-> Publisher is not harmed"
How? Publishers do need revenue and this can deprive them of this income.
Fair enough. I took the principle that revenue = 0 if no conversion, but in reality this is not true at all.