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."

Comments

"Protest"?

[MrEricSir]

Won't this just make Google more money?

It's not like the advertisers can go somewhere else. If you want search ads, there's only one place to go.

Re:"Protest"?

[biocute]

Not really.

This only makes Google more money if Google keeps those false clicks and charges the advertisers, which will undermine its AdSense products.

And it will cost Google a lot of time and money to validate whether a click is fraud or not if enough people start doing it.

And you really should do it manually, randomly and intermittently, otherwise Google could just delete a bunch of clicks from the same IP address in short timeframe.

Why not just block their ads?

[Xtravar]

Actually, I think I already have Google ads blocked...

Will false-positives hurt them more than just adblocking them?

Re:Why not just block their ads?

[geekoid]

"don't fraudulently click them."

what they hell does that mean? how can you fraudulently click something?