Ask HN: Aren't botnets clicking on ads & algorithmic stock market trading same?

Posted by indus on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Botnet fraud is illegal as it mimics humans. Isn't this analogous to algorithmic trading? Fifty years ago, humans did price discovery and not machines.

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Re:Ask HN: Aren't botnets clicking on ads & algorithmic stoc... by cthom06 on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:22PM (#6496270)

Botnet fraud is, umm, fraudulent? You're creating false information in order to get paid for a product (conversions) you did not deliver.

Algorithmic trading doesn't do anything like that.

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