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I don’t think advertisers want to spend money for bot clicks.

• nullocator 9mo ago
  Or maybe they do, because the big open secret in advertising is that they do spend quite a bit of money on exactly that
  • ryandrake 9mo ago
    I don't even think it's a secret anymore, open or otherwise. As long as Vanity Metric Goes Up, it doesn't seem like anyone, anywhere, actually cares how much "economic activity" is fake.
• Viliam1234 9mo ago
  That's why the social networks don't want to talk about the bots, but they are happy to have them.
• BobbyTables2 9mo ago
  I suspect it’s the “nobody got fired for buying IBM” mentality. Who in marketing doesn’t want to champion the success of “we got 25% more views this month!”