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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."
Here's something easier, and much less malicious, and just plain retarded. Don't use Google.
I must be turning into an Archie Bunker in my old age, but I find pricks like you and Adbusters utterly intolerable. The sole measure of your indignation against someone else seems to be their success.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
no you ethically you would be in the wrong too (who fights bad ethics with bad ethics? that's just stupid) in that you be helping to cause the closer of adsense accounts for the websites you visit which pays for the very site you generally visit (it's not like many people are gonna change their surf habbits so they will affects the site they tend to like and visit more).
If you wanna make a big protest that isn't as stupid/ethically bad, just get enough people to block it and make enough scene of it assuming of course enough people cares.
Personally, the tracking of users sucks somewhat but it's not like it wasn't expected to beging with (i thought they did that already). To me, it's not too big of a deal compared to what other companies do. If you want to make a big enough stink about it, feel free but don't make it harder of the website owners that have pay the bills for the sites I like.
That would be more the more rational solution, but let's not forget that Adbusters are a pack of anarcho-communists. It's not just that they want free enterprise and capitalism to fail, they want to stick dynamite in its foundations and blow it up.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
To Adbusters, there is no such thing as an "honest commercial website". When will people realize, Adbusters is to the Internet what PETA is to animal rights. They aren't some sort of consumer advocates, they're goddamned anarcho-communists. They're a pack of lunatic fanatics. The only thing they currently lack is a pack of ravenous loonies ala-Ron Paul-style supporters appearing on every possible web forum decrying the evils of modern capitalist society.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I hate advertising, but as long as I can opt out it's OK with me.
You can opt out, you can start paying for all services that would normally be ad supported. Anything else is just freeloading.
I dont read
Perfect example of why we're moving to socialism. You're demonizing something you clearly don't even understand.
Maybe not
Killing your business means one fewer AdSense customer. In today's economic climate, another one won't spring up to take your place anytime soon. Chop down enough small companies feeding it, and the beast might actually feel something.
Requiem for the American Dream
Carl? Carl Icahn? Is that you?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
The internet isn't free. You agree to use it at the cost of viewing ads. No ads, and the internet won't exist.
What, you thought internet companies ask their employees to work for free?! ;)