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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by burnte on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:11PM (#45594740)
> But what I'm struggling to understand is where is the money coming from to run those bots?

I agree, I have a hard time understanding the motivation for this behavior. It's obviously happening, I just don't know how someone benefits from a bot pretending to browse the internet.

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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by bombcar on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:40PM (#45596015)
Isn't the idea that you run google ads on your site, and then have your botnet click the ads on your site, and you get paid for the traffic?
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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by KaiserPro on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:05PM (#45597717)
Aha! that makes much more sense. Yeah having something autobot your click throughs seems like a motivation to run bots.

I was thinking about ad traffic from one of the meta/twitter/tiktok products and couldn't think what the motivation would be

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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by burnte on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:52PM (#45611126)
It would but the fact it goes out and does it to other sites is weird. Why would someone else fraudulently click my ads? As an attack, I understand that, I've had that done to me. Just randomly seems odd. Maybe I'm just not creative enough to think of bad things to do with this. :D
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