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by scrollaway 1751 days ago
That'd just end up costing the high quality content providers money. Ads wouldn't just get cheaper for them.

On the contrary, clicking only on trash, and having the high quality content have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio would have the desired effect.

Maybe.
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turbinerneiter 1751 days ago
The idea is not so much of clicking on high quality content ads, but sending visits to high quality content pages and click on the ads of those pages, to get them more money. Would obviously stop working if the sales after the ad click are not made.

But, hey this isn't a gameplan, this was just a "what if" :D

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scrollaway 1751 days ago
That could work, or indeed it could get them dropped quicker because they have a high fraud rate :)

I'm fully on board with the AdNauseam model which fucks about indiscriminately. The ad industry can burn.

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mrjin 1751 days ago
Cannot agree more. Since the the advertisers have that much to spend, let's make them to spend more for nothing. Also by doing so, it will literally put enough noise into the data those trackers collect and renders the user profiling useless and effectively protecting us from being tracked.

If we only click ads on high quality contents, those content owner might benefit from it in short term but in long run it most likely going to back fire and make them penalized as for sure there is going to be counter measures. If we simply click every ad indiscriminately, there is no way to tell or they have to penalize everyone which almost equals to do nothing.

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monkpit 1751 days ago
> to get them more money

Wouldn’t they just lose money? Ad clicks are not valuable to the businesses themselves. Only to the ad companies.

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AussieWog93 1751 days ago
>That'd just end up costing the high quality content providers money.

I always click on Taboola bitcoin scam links for that exact reason. It's like scambaiting an algorithm.

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chrischen 1751 days ago
Pretty much all pay per click ads are trash… and I guess most other ads too. No complicated logic needed here!
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ElFitz 1751 days ago
Plus, low quality content providers would have a high click-through ratio but very low conversion rate.

Might be interesting.

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