[gyaniv]

I'm not entirely sure I have that much of a problem with ad fraud, doesn't it only hurt the ad companies and companies like google (which I have a problem with anyway), by basically scamming them into believing that I interacted so that company should be compensated.

I do object to collecting and sending my personal information, but I feel they just mixed it, as that probably relates to more then just these Chinese apps.

And I really don't like the fact that it seems that Google only cares about abusing the users, and breaches of trust and privacy when it hurts the advertisers (and themselves), and not when the normal user gets hurt.

Not surprising though, but still annoying.

[pergadad]

It hurts mostly the companies paying for ads, and probably mostly smaller ones that can't detect the issue. Think your local car dealer.

[lostgame]

I’ve never seen an ad for my local car dealer, or similar, in an iOS app, for instance. Just saying.

[gyaniv]

I would actually think the smaller ones would detect the issue faster, simply because they would see ad clicks and recognize no new business, as opposed to bigger ones, that this would be an insignificant change they wouldn't notice.

In addition, I don't see the companies paying for ads getting hurt the most, in the end, if they would recognize that these types of ads are inefficient, they just wouldn't use it as much (they would use other outlets) or lower how much the value (and pay) for it. Which would help me (by getting rid of something I dislike), and at the same time hurt those that maintain and support that part of the business in the adtech world (another plus for me).