I am not going to comment specifically on whether this is a good idea or not, but I will mention this: the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement does have a clause that requires us to take down applications that violate some other service's Terms of Service. So morality and ethics aside, if an ad service (or any other service) complains to us about an app which is violating their Terms of Service, the app may be removed from the Market. - Dan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > No. I took the easy way out and decided to just not use them. It was kind > of obvious that all those clicks were fraud. On the other hand. I do have > sells from people that just find me in a search engine. > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Mattaku Betsujin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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]> > [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]> >> [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]> >> [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
