[_ak]

You overestimate the amount of impact adnauseam makes. Users that click on many ads on one page within a short time window, but never convert? Obviously fraud that's being filtered, the user will be blacklisted on both the supply and the demand side, and you very quickly make no impact at all, and will most certainly not disrupt the flow of revenue for anybody involved here. That's not some outlandish futuristic technology, that's standard practice for any half-decent player in online advertising.

[pdkl95]

> You overestimate the amount of impact

I never discussed the level of impact for this type of direct action.

edit: Also, if the impact is negligible, I assume you're fine with more people installing adnauseam.

> Obviously fraud

Good luck making that decision. Are you willing to defraud the people hosting your ads with an overly-sensitive detector? Unlike the user that installs adnauseam that doesn't have any contractual relationship with the advertiser or ad-hosting website, the advertiser would be committing fraud if their false positive is too high.

[taneq]

> the user will be blacklisted on both the supply and the demand side

Isn't that a win, for a user who already runs an adblocker?

[jdavis703]

No it just means that you start seeing really crappy ads, i.e. Russian bride ads and malware ads with big "download' buttons.

[taneq]

Except you don't, because you run an adblocker.

Also, receiving untarged ads may mean you're no longer being tracked, which is a bonus if you're concerned about privacy.

[wongarsu]

Maybe the actual impact is low, but GP was discussing intent, which is completely unrelated to achieved impact.

[nurettin]

>> Users that click on many ads on one page within a short time window, but never convert?

I think this is why companies are paying real software engineers top $ to come up with real solutions to this non-trivial problem.