It is click fraud. If Google catches on that that's happening their only recourse is to pull the account of the site you are "helping". This is a stupid idea that will only hurt site operators.
-j On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Mattaku Betsujin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
