alt Hacker NewsYou're not clicking the button, you're sending a known fraudulent request saying the ad was clicked, when the ad was not clicked
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dsr_ • yesterday at 10:53 PM
An AI agent did it. Obviously I can't be expected to watch over all the things it does.
I still wonder about that. I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't. The website operator does have such a contract and so cannot hire a bot farm to spam click the ads.
If it's something that's been held up in court already then of course I have to accept it, but I can't say the reason seems immediately intuitive.