Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store
by hsod on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:38PM
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> They aren't attempting deceit through their actions.
You don't think so? Isn't the whole point of this extension to try and trick advertisers into paying for non-existent user engagement?
Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store
by aninhumer on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:21AM
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But the user never makes any kind of claim or promise that their advert clicking represents real user engagement.
It's up to the advertiser to accurately classify user behaviour, and the user has no responsibility to make that easy for them.
Now, if the advertiser knows that people are clicking things through a script, and has some clause with their agreement with the company that says 'We won't charge you when this happens' but charges them anyway, that would be deceit. But it'd be on the part of the advertiser to the company buying the advertisements.