The entire online ad industry where they pay per click is fundamentally flawed anyway.
While having bots click the links automates the process, it's essentially no more fraudulent than those mobile games that reward you for clicking on ads or watching videos. Nobody is really paying attention, they're just clicking to get whatever the game is rewarding them.
Ultimately there's no way to measure the "quality" of the click, as in whether or not the person clicking it is even paying attention, and it's also easy to outright fabricate clicks, which I believe Google has been accused of doing in the past.
Sure it is. The advertiser paid you for displaying your ad to a person. If they ignore it, aren't in the room, instantly close it, etc. is the end-user's choice. The advertiser knows this too. You still fulfilled your obligation to the advertiser as the app developer as long as you did what you claimed to.
I'm not crying to advertisers but the difference is very clear cut. If you trick a user into clicking via fake "X" in the UI and things like that... that's a different story.
The entire online ad industry where they pay per click is fundamentally flawed anyway.
While having bots click the links automates the process, it's essentially no more fraudulent than those mobile games that reward you for clicking on ads or watching videos. Nobody is really paying attention, they're just clicking to get whatever the game is rewarding them.
Ultimately there's no way to measure the "quality" of the click, as in whether or not the person clicking it is even paying attention, and it's also easy to outright fabricate clicks, which I believe Google has been accused of doing in the past.
Sure it is. The advertiser paid you for displaying your ad to a person. If they ignore it, aren't in the room, instantly close it, etc. is the end-user's choice. The advertiser knows this too. You still fulfilled your obligation to the advertiser as the app developer as long as you did what you claimed to.
I'm not crying to advertisers but the difference is very clear cut. If you trick a user into clicking via fake "X" in the UI and things like that... that's a different story.