Did you try to take this up with Google? What was their response?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > Extremely immoral. I tried googles add program once, I was getting > thousands of clicks per day and no actual sells. Never tried them again. > Lost several hundred dollars. > > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Mattaku Betsujin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > They can probably detect the connection is from a TMO network. With some > carrier help, they can probably determine the type of device. > > I wasn't going to write such an app. And whoever that will write this will > probably host it on pirate bay, etc. > > I just wanted to point out the combination of openness (you can install app > from anywhere, not just Market) and the security (you cab be sure the > clickbot won't read your address book) makes Android a particular attractive > platform for deploying large scale, volunteer-based click bot network. > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM, lbcoder < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> They couldn't possibly detect that the connection is from an android >> phone unless you stupidly broadcasted that in the HTTP header. Most >> likely, you would want to use the user-agent of a common desktop >> browser. >> >> And because of that, when it finally IS discovered, your app will be >> pulled, your dev account will be closed, and YOU could face the legal >> problems applicable to fraud. >> >> >> > 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! >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
