Comment by reaperducer
15 hours ago
Doubtful
Not doubtful at all. He literally laid out the definition of click fraud for you.
As someone who ran ads on web sites as far back as 1995, that has been the term the industry has used forever.
Replying with a dismissive "doubtful" demonstrates that you don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, doubtful it is not fraud, just because you didn’t sign a contract does not prevent it from being fraud.
And it is fine to use the terms click fraud when you conduct artificial clicks with the intent:
Examples:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328628
+ sources from court:
> The opinion states: “click fraud” can occur when “either a (natural) person, automated script, or computer program, sometimes referred to as a `bot,’ simulates the click activity of a legitimate user by clicking on the Program Data displayed, but without having an actual interest in its subject matter or content.”
Etc