That never made any sense to me. Sure, if you convert a significant amount of people to spamming ad clicks you reduce the value of each click but that just means advertisers will pay less per click. It also has zero effect if they use other metrics, if you pay on conversion rate (number of signups/paying customers) click spam doesn’t matter.
There is some value in messing with data by clicking everything but if you never see ads anyway that data isn’t worth a whole lot.
You’re also putting money in Google’s pocket… They’ve been caught doing things like this to cheese their metrics
Once a customer burns through their ad buy and sees they got a ton of clicks, they’re going to think “oh shit, this worked great”. Even under closer inspection, it looks like the ad worked, but that they’re failing to make the sales
So they’re probably going to buy more
This idea only works by helping inflate the advertising bubble, until it pops you’re just supporting ad services
It doesn’t click nearly everything by default, that would diminish uBlock’s bandwidth savings. I agree with your point though, and ads measuring signups rather than clicks have more agressive tracking by definition and should not be encouraged.
It’s just adnauseum.
That never made any sense to me. Sure, if you convert a significant amount of people to spamming ad clicks you reduce the value of each click but that just means advertisers will pay less per click. It also has zero effect if they use other metrics, if you pay on conversion rate (number of signups/paying customers) click spam doesn’t matter.
There is some value in messing with data by clicking everything but if you never see ads anyway that data isn’t worth a whole lot.
You’re also putting money in Google’s pocket… They’ve been caught doing things like this to cheese their metrics
Once a customer burns through their ad buy and sees they got a ton of clicks, they’re going to think “oh shit, this worked great”. Even under closer inspection, it looks like the ad worked, but that they’re failing to make the sales
So they’re probably going to buy more
This idea only works by helping inflate the advertising bubble, until it pops you’re just supporting ad services
It doesn’t click nearly everything by default, that would diminish uBlock’s bandwidth savings. I agree with your point though, and ads measuring signups rather than clicks have more agressive tracking by definition and should not be encouraged.