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Gabrys1yesterday at 2:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

What if someone unironically wants to automatically click all the ads to support the websites they visit


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billyp-rvayesterday at 3:30 PM

You'd be doing way more harm than good. The battle between ad networks and unscrupulous website owners using bots to fake ad clicks has been going on forever.

freitasmyesterday at 5:49 PM

Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.

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rvnxyesterday at 3:25 PM

Some sort of Robinhood of advertising, taking from the big, to give to the small