“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”

Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by SamBam on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:35PM (#24733566)

Yup. I remember those sites that would say "please click on the ads and support us!"

There was also that one in the early 2000s that claimed to donate a cup of rice for every ad clicked, and maybe another one that planted seeds or something. I think I clicked on those a bunch for a while. Doubt they ever did any good, and I should probably have just donated the $2 I probably "earned" for those charities with my clicks.

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Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” by coldpie on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:23PM (#24734052)

I once used a hosting provider whose business model was to give you "credits" every time you clicked on an ad. Enough credits got you a month of hosting. So of course I wrote up a little HTML page with some javascript that had a dozen iframes to load each click into a different frame, then refresh the ads list. Host told me to knock it off a couple days later :(

He did end up hiring me for a tiny bit of website work after that, paid like $200. My first ever paid tech gig.

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