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by theAnonMe 2954 days ago
impressions are not clicks.
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No, but impressions do require downloading content from a server, which can be tracked. The trouble would be cases where apps are preloading content, so it's downloaded but the user might not have seen it yet.
Or - as is often the case - the consumer is caching api responses for some period.