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ThrustVectoringyesterday at 8:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

Google pays third-party websites to host advertisements, and shady website owners will put ads on such a website and bot clicks on it.


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consumer451yesterday at 9:13 PM

I misspoke. I meant google search ads specificaly, not ads that appeared on 3rd party sites.

hermitcrabyesterday at 9:04 PM

You can bid just on the ads that Google shows on its own website to avoid this.