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by strikelaserclaw 674 days ago
"You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done." - not quite, without other events like taking a user to advertisers page or linking sales to this particular ad, i think this website will have its ad revenue reduced.
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This also doesn't punish the advertiser for externalizing ad costs by using your storage, bandwidth and CPU. Inadequate.