lets say I would do this:
>buy cheap webserver
>create a list of liberal media websites with google adsense on them
>use phantom.js (with most common user agent) to visit those websites and click on the ads
if I did this, would it work? would google figure out this are fake clicks? and whats the legal status of clicking ads through bots?
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Yes.
they would probably just blacklist the server IP? I would have to get a server with dynamic IP?
You're gonna need a bigger boat. Your measly "clicks" are hardly going to register against the rest of the traffic.
>Why is this not illegal?
Clicking on adverts is by definition a responsive action. Responding as quickly as the server can send me adverts cannot be an act of spam or flood attack because that would make your server the attacker and the clicker the victim. If clicking on adverts more than a number in a certain period is illegal, prior to that why would sending the clicker at least the equal number of adverts in the same time period legal by the same logic? By any measure and by any definition of the law, clicking on all the adverts all the time however frequent is not illegal.
However Google might be committing click fraud by knowingly send out adverts to the same person before he can reasonably click a second time. That is, the technical method of how Google display their advert is flawed, but they still charge advertisers by number of clicks, not by the more reasonable measure of how a normal person who intent fulfil the purpose of the advert, i.e. clicking and then proceed to become a customer brought in by the clicking action, would need time to complete said action and therefore complete the purpose of the paid advert, therefore the risk of displaying adverts during this time when a person is still completing this process triggered by an earlier advert he clicked, lies solely on Google alone as it is a completely understandable, foreseeable and preventable risk that the commercial model that Google choose to follow carry. In other words, any damage can only be a result of Google miscalculating and adopted a flawed technical method of serving adverts and commercial model.
Therefore Google may be committing click fraud (towards the advertisers) by adopting said flawed methods and models. Which explains the previous lawsuits they decided to pay out over the last few years.
Therefore, however unrealistic and unhuman clicking on adverts multiple times a minute can be, it is also not illegal to do so.
Better yet, use FireFox with AdNauseam. Way easier to get rolling and fuck over Google
>You're gonna need a bigger boat. Your measly "clicks" are hardly going to register against the rest of the traffic.
Make a web browser plugin that does it from volunteer machines, good old LOIC style.
I dont want my IP to be blacklisted.. But I wouldnt mind if they blacklist server IPs I pay 3-5$/month
or better even make a trojan that does it from infected machines.
If Google thinks you are a robot, they will simply ask you to solve Captchas. Simply wait a few minutes or hours for it to reset.
No you can still automate FireFox with selenium and AdNauseam will probably work just the same.
>make a trojan that does it from infected machines
I'm too brainlet for that...
>If Google thinks you are a robot
oh, that would fuck my server idea from OP...
Random Agent Spoofer
google will never blacklist any IP, they would lose too much legit users vs 1 clicker, and they know you would just reset your IP anyway
>a list of liberal media websites
OP you are just making something that can be automated easily locally e.g. with a script or something.
lmao this, google cant fight back adnauseam
my other plan was to sell adsense clicks too.. I'm sure there must be an black market for that stuff?
Why would anyone want it?
>be content creator
>add adsense to your site
>have many visiotrs who dont click ads
>by adclicks on black market for some low price and earn money
run it on gce
>implying the entire industry doesn't already run on fake clicks
gee i wonder why the NYT has such a huge readership from china, where it's blocked by its government
Just get an AWS server, and write a simple bash script to reboot the server every couple of hours (since AWS gives you a new I.P address by default).