Comment on Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 9 months agoThere already are tools out there that obfuscate your data by making it purposefully wrong, e.g. adnauseam.io is an ad blocker that also clicks every single ad sent your way.
redballooon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Also benefiting the ad companies who charge per click, while not ever leading to a sale.
Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 9 months ago
It mostly benefits the website that is being visited. If an ad company sells ad spots that don’t convert to sales, the organizations buying the ad spots will be less likely to buy them in the future, potentially hurting the ad company
Kimano@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah but this also results in the site receiving less money from ads, also hurting them in the long run. Really the solution is to pay for the services you enjoy, and acknowledge the age-old “if the service is free, you are the product”.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It has always been my understanding that sites and apps get paid X cents for displaying an ad, and Y cents (where Y is larger than X) whenever someone actually clicks an ad on their site. So this would in theory help the website.