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Re:The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs (2012) by bell-cot on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:57AM (#28879187)
Short-term, certainly. Long-term - negative ROI's would drive away the real customers, who are paying for those ads.

Or at least that's the "Optimism set to 11" plan.

Re:The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs (2012) by chhickman on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:55PM (#28882375)
Evil plan: Create a network distributed system (kind of like Seti@Home) specifically for doing this. If there was enough participation to make a difference the advertisers would have to invest in countermeasures which could lead to an arms-race that ultimately erodes all profit from it.