Comment on I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake

athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used to work in marketing as a dev and this shit never made sense to me. I didn’t investigate like TFA but I am 0% surprised by the finding. Incentives are all misaligned.

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  • nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    muh KPIs!!

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• circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s systemic, and whether or not it’s perpetrated directly by big tech, they are the primary beneficiaries i.e. increased ad sales.

  This is a problem that requires regulation, which means it will not be addressed meaningfully, as that won’t happen anytime soon.

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