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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by sam0x17 on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:40PM (#24732998)
The problem with any model where ad performance is based on how much cash you can throw down is that scams are much more profitable typically than legitimate services. A scam page can afford $5/click if it's scamming 1% of its clicks for $5000. Bidding on clicks is just a race to the bottom in terms of quality.

We should instead be using user metrics to evaluate and punish ads that lead to pages users regret navigating to.

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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by michaelt on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:24PM (#24734069)
The solution to that is right at the start of this thread:

> "Never allow dynamic ad content! Ads should be individually approved by publishers and not subject to change after approval."

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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by sam0x17 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:32AM (#24737057)
In that case it's just in the hands of individual publishers, so results will vary. Plus publishers will make more money if they _don't_ do the right thing and police out the bad ads (at least in the short term).
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by throwaway2048 on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:43PM (#24734739)
That does not prevent scams
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by earthboundkid on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:25PM (#24736280)
Traditionally, publishers didn’t mind publishing ads for scams like sea monkeys or x-ray specs, but they found it embarrassing and put them in the back of the book in small print. The bizarre part of the internet is that the scams go on the homepages of sites.
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by abakker on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:23PM (#24733457)
But, then we'd need to track users even more deeply, right?
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by cmorgan31 on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:24PM (#24734597)
We would need to model regret which is a questionable request to agree to “solve”.
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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by sam0x17 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:36AM (#24736715)
Not really imo -- like I said upvotes and downvotes can do this just as well. Just have to have good anti-bot protections on that
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