J.D. Aubé @JadeAube 13h13 hours ago
The brilliant autists @ /pol/ have created a bot that clicks on Googles most costly Ads. Googles clients gon be mad: https://pastebin.com/23gXq753
Posted on 08/11/2017 7:49:58 AM PDT by 13foxtrot
Just a quick thought.
What if everyone clicked on Google ads just to run up the bill for Google advertisers?
In the short term Google would make some money, but their advertisers would have to pay it for no benefit.
I wonder if enough angry people protest clicked their ads would advertisers leave or lower their ad bids?
If someone clicked through they could tell the advertisers that it was protest click.
To make it work you would need to program some bots to do nothing but click on certain advertisers, 24/7.
you could ruin google’s business model...for a bit... as advertisers would drop until the protest subsided...google would have to issue returns i would imagine.
You would really be hurting the company advertising... not google. A better way would be to drop chrome for something like brave and use another search engine like duck duck go instead of google.
Google doesn’t get paid by the clicks. They get paid by the volume of impressions they serve.
You have it backwards.
Any enterprising FR techie wanna write a downloadable script that could do this automatically?
Don’t do this on sites you like or it will result in ads pulled from the site as click fraud.
Conversely, do this on Huffington Post or other liberal sites and they will see ads disrupted if not pulled.
“To make it work you would need to program some bots to do nothing but click on certain advertisers, 24/7.”
If this would work, what’s to keep Google or any other online business from paying someone to set up such a bot to ‘click’ on their advertisers. I would think it would be illegal, but that won’t stop people from trying.
J.D. Aubé @JadeAube 13h13 hours ago
The brilliant autists @ /pol/ have created a bot that clicks on Googles most costly Ads. Googles clients gon be mad: https://pastebin.com/23gXq753
What we should do is take up Scott Adams’ proposal and demand anti-trust legislation against Google. They control:
* 90%+ of online advertising
* a large minority of online content and bias search results toward what they own, Google+, Youtube, Google Books
* are so big that their restrictions on content and biases against it in search engine results or outright censorship on Youtube interferes with our right to free speech. It is as if we sold the public square to Zuckerberg and Google, and the little corner they allow conservatives far from the beaten path is tolerated because hey, they’re private companies.
Starve the beast.
Or DogPile which also a good browser.
I wouldn't put it past them. I recall back in the late 90's -early 2000's my company entered into an advertising agreement where we paid "per click" on the ad. It was with one of the big presences at the time, maybe Yahoo, but I can't specifically recall now. I set up a web page that you could ONLY get to by clicking the ad. There were no other links to it and the URL was long enough that nobody was going to inadvertently type it in. Were were told the first two months how many clicks we got and how much we owed. But when I checked with our ISP to verify it showed that the page had been accessed only about half that many times. We cancelled the one year contract immediately and threatened a class action lawsuit if they put up a fuss. They didn't and the one year contract was cancelled two months into the deal.
Wow! Smart move by you.
It's a Reddit post on how to get Google out of your life.
Credit goes to ReaganGeneration2 for the original link in the prior post.
Investigate Google for treason and sedition.
Bookmark
Or don’t use google.
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