Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers?
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Back before I blocked every type of ad, I would click through ads every time they pissed me off. I would click, let the page load, and click two more links within their page before closing it. Ad views cost them a small fraction of a cent. That click through cost them an order of magnitude more money. That is how AdSense works. All you have to do is get everyone to do the same and the entire system fails within a few weeks. No one cares if you whine to some low level employees. If you want to protest, molest their bank account like they do your time. They are actually extremely vulnerable if you simply understand how the system works.
It's actually a bit more complicated.
AdSense indeed used to work through ratios of views and clicks, but Google (and all other ad networks) have been tinkering with it to benefit them even more.
Today, it's about conversion, and conversion as a KPI is not well defined. Clicking into an as might simply not be enough to make it cost more.
Yeah. I'd assume they do it at least as a ratio, not an absolute.
They can't be that stupid . . . can they?
I heard there is a browser extension which does this
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Did you know there is a browser extension that does this for you while also blocking ads from view?