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by solumunus 623 days ago
> For example, what happens if Google cracks down hard on this and suddenly 60-80% of YouTube traffic (or even ad-traffic) evaporates because it was done by bots? It would wipe out their revenue.

Nonsense. Advertisers measure results. CPM rates would simply increase to match the increased value of a click.