Comment on Maybe Facebook, Spotify, Twitter and the like are scamming Advertisers about interaction stats thanks to AI-powered Bots.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t shock me. But from memory advertising is paid based on clicks per view ratio.
If one were the size of google, and lacked ethics, they could bot the clicks as well as the views.
google has ethics?
also, i think it would be more cost effective for them to just make the numbers up, no bots needed.
The site itself might be tracking views, so might need it. Dunno how to make the bots not look like datacenter IP addresses though.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
If one were the size of google, and lacked ethics, they could bot the clicks as well as the views.
Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
google has ethics?
also, i think it would be more cost effective for them to just make the numbers up, no bots needed.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The site itself might be tracking views, so might need it. Dunno how to make the bots not look like datacenter IP addresses though.