I've been following tech long enough to know that as soon as the computer can figure out which button to press it's only going to click on ads, I guarantee it.
Isn't it trivial to make a computer click on ads though? Just run selenium, apply the filtering rules from adblock and then click on a random element which would be blocked.
I think their point is the opposite - it's *not* trivial to make the computer click the correct "Download Now!" button to get Minecraft versus the other 4 that lead to malware.
and then that’s going to be met with MS making it “impossible” for bots to automate clicking on ads which will have the unintended consequence of making it harder to use for power users.