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Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest
An anonymous reader writes "In response to Google's recently announced plans to expand the tracking of users, the international anti-advertising magazine Adbusters proposes that we collectively embark on a civil disobedience campaign of intentional, automated 'click fraud' in order to undermine Google's advertising program in order to force Google to adopt a pro-privacy corporate policy. They have released a GreaseMonkey script that automatically clicks on all AdSense ads."
Yo, Dawg! I herd you like clickin' ads so I put an ad in yo ad so you can click while you click!
Why do you hate the free market?!
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
i think this is stupid, but it's just my $0.02...
Sorry, that bid is not high enough for any ad placement.
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Actually give me a few minutes to put more ads so I can make more money I mean hurt google's ad revenue.
Executive Order 28253 clearly states that you do have to drink Fizzy Drinks.
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I know, right! Every time I see a advertisement on a vehicle on the highway, I deliberately don't look at it, so that my mind will not be poisoned by their insidious self-promotion. Makes it more difficult to change lanes, and my insurance went way up after I rear-ended one of them, but hey, freedom isn't free.
Also, I insist that girls who wear shirts that have logos on them take them off in my presence.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
Wow.
OK.
Just to be clear - the only indignation I expressed was at the use of the term civil disobedience. And if I'm not mistaken, that indignation was AGAINST Adbusters, not Google.
I did say that I found their efforts laudable - (def'n - deserving praise or commendation) - and if you're interested, it was because a group found a bad thing (in their opinion) happening commercially, and have a plan to thwart it, using Google's (perceived) own evil against them. You'll note that my post is successive to an earlier one suggesting that Google's behavior may be actionable in court - hence, my cursory acceptance that the claim is true, i.e., Google is being evil, and evil is punishable.
I even made fun of myself in the first paragraph by noting that I usually endorse google in my use of everyday language.
I think you are either having a very bad day or have an under-constrained definition of the word prick.
Your idea that I have a problem with success, successful people, or successful companies, is actually and entirely your own problem.
I wish you a better day.
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
Why bring Ted Kennedy into this?
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I don't need no GreaseMonkey script - I already click on all the ads visible :)
'The Coke side of Politics',
Why bring Ted Kennedy into this?
Don't you mean Barack Obama?
Look mean while you press the button.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Any magazine has a good public library?
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine -- Robert C. Gallagher
Do tell us when such an improved and hacked up Gnash comes into existance.
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Why does it always seem universally agreed upon that advertising is lame? It's one of the top ways I find out about products I enjoy.
HA! Says the guy with the gmail address!
Check out the HTML source for the adbusters link. Oops! Google tracking bug!