Surely the app will not ship with a default site. Otherwise this site will be blacklisted by all ad agencies very soon.
However, I think such an app will benefit a lot of popular forum sites. Imaging this -- from time to time, some user will post, "hey guys, if you want to support xyzforum.com, install Ad Support on your Android phone and enter 'xyzforum.com'". Since the message is posted by a random user, and not by the site's owner, it will be hard for the ad agency to take any actions against the site. Also, if the site already has a lot of users, and some of them do legitimately click ads, the extra fake clicks can't reliably be detected. The only thing you could do is to disqualify all clicks originated from Android phones, but probably Google would not do that, or else there will be no point developing Android from the first place! This kind of "benevolent click bots" were not possible in the past because people will not want to install native apps on their PC just to support their favorite web site, due to the security risks involved. But now that Android provides much better application security, I think people will be more willing to install these bots. So the way I see it, in the future, this kind of parasites will keep growing, especially on Android .... On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Josh Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I doubt they'd end up in jail, but the site that you are targetting > will surely get their account booted from googles ad programs for > violating click-fraud TOS. > > -j > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Mattaku Betsujin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's an idea for an app -- "ad support". It allows you to enter your > > favorite site(s). Then, every day, it will discretely click a few ads on > > that site. That way, you can give you favorite site a little boost. > > > > Will Google allow such an app on the Market? > > > > Will Google be able to stop such an app from functioning? > > > > Is there anything illegal about doing this? Will the author (or user) of > > this app end up in jail? > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
