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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by nickff on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:15PM (#24411116)
All the metrics for advertisement sales have been gamed for as long as I know of (at least 20 years); this goes for paper, online, television, and radio. Smart advertisers know what's going on, and they take the 'gaming' into account.
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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by kzrdude on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:38PM (#24413767)
I've been waiting so long for it to be a bubble that pops, web ads just can't be worth that much when they are so bad.

I see some "captive" ads now, and I can imagine those are worth so much more - for example instagram play-between ads. No wonder the open web is dying.

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