Ad blocker that clicks on the ads

Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by chrisBob on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:19AM (#8515541)

Screw that.

If you don't like sites with annoying adds why send them revenue from click throughs? There are also a lot of hard working companies out there that would rather not pay $0.25 every time some ass hole with a browser extension visits a page.

edit:toned down.

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by easytiger on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:22AM (#8515551)

Not sure if you've used google to advertise with before but they will work out that this user is clicking maliciously and discard them. The whole point is they won't get revenue from this unless you visit very few sites.

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by chrisBob on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:30AM (#8515604)

So does that make it better or worse than just blocking adds?

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by jackmaney on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:44AM (#8515700)

Worse, as ad networks can--and do--block publishers for click fraud.

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by easytiger on Monday October 27, 2014 @11:03AM (#8515863)

well they will be able to identify that the user is responsible, not the host. hopefully

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by jackmaney on Monday October 27, 2014 @11:16AM (#8515949)

How?

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by easytiger on Monday October 27, 2014 @11:37AM (#8516115)

Same way they do now. They don't publicize the algorithms i believe

http://www.google.com/ads/adtrafficquality/invalid-click-pro...

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Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads by easytiger on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:43AM (#8515693)

I think its an attempt at anarchism. This on any scale might render their data useless. Of course they might just ignore all data from this user meaning it changes nothing.

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