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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by moron4hire on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:19PM (#24732156)
> Asking publishers to manually approve every single ad that might run is onerous.

Maybe they should find a better business model, then.

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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by Rebelgecko on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:57PM (#24732555)
I think they already have, at least from their perspective
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by earthboundkid on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:40PM (#24736336)
Not a single publisher believes the internet is a “better” business model than the old world. Google does. Facebook does.
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by Rebelgecko on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:47PM (#24736361)
Aren't those 2 of the biggest publishers?
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by earthboundkid on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:48PM (#24742771)
Depends on how you define it. A “publisher” should pay its content producers, so YouTube would be. Nothing else Google or FB do though.
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