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  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    3 months ago

    News websites get revenue via ads. This makes people load the same page again, loading the ads again.

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      3 months ago

      I’d have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there’s cheating involved, no?

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        3 months ago

        They also get paid off of this, the advertiser pays for those impressions.

        Advertisers can’t switch because they can’t not be present on big platforms. The whole ad industry is just companies scamming each other and the consumer.

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        3 months ago

        Nope. They just hear back about number of views and how it influences the shoppers and brags about how it works.

        I honestly think it’s mostly the idea of advertising that keeps it running as an industry.

        Like Facebook juicing their video viewership and recent news about Google using off screen ads in their views and impressions numbers.