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Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store by cortesoft on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:54PM (#13330151)
As far as (1).... making a web request is NOT a user saying they clicked an ad. That is an inference that the website owner is making, not a statement the user is making. The user never agreed to that.

This would be like if you are a dairy farmer and you notice people who buy cookies usually buy milk, so to make things simple you make an agreement to pay a store 25 cents for every cookie they sell (because you want to incentivize them to sell more cookies and therefore more milk). You couldn't then accuse a customer of fraud when they buy cookies but not milk. They never agreed to always buy milk when they buy cookies, that was just an assumption you made.

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Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store by dragonwriter on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:02PM (#13333040)
> making a web request is NOT a user saying they clicked an ad.

Whatever the merits of that argument might be in the general case, using an extension which expressly advertises its function to include falsifying clicks to mislead ad networks makes it hard to make the argument in that context.

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Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store by cortesoft on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:56PM (#13339091)
Right, but just because I know the inference that a 3rd party is making, am I under some responsibility to not change my behavior? I don't think I have some legal or moral responsibility to not troll someone watching me.
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