Comment by direwolf20
Comment by direwolf20 14 hours ago
You're not clicking the button, you're sending a known fraudulent request saying the ad was clicked, when the ad was not clicked
Comment by direwolf20 14 hours ago
You're not clicking the button, you're sending a known fraudulent request saying the ad was clicked, when the ad was not clicked
There's a very general law that says something about using a computer to cause money to move
>I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't.
Charges of fraud doesn't require a contract to be in place. That's the whole point of criminal law, it's so that you don't need to add a "don't screw me over" clause to every interaction you make.
How is that a fraud, when I don't get any money from the scheme?
Gaining something isn't required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud#Civil_fraud
I still wonder about that. I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't. The website operator does have such a contract and so cannot hire a bot farm to spam click the ads.
If it's something that's been held up in court already then of course I have to accept it, but I can't say the reason seems immediately intuitive.