Sentence examples for fake click from inspiring English sources

We note that a malicious publisher can implement such an app (i.e., bot program), and the publisher can also install the app on his (or her) own device to generate fake click events within a short time interval in order to make its own profit.

When police raided a rented home in Thailand, they discovered Wang Dong, Niu Bang, and Ni Wenjin were running an extensive fake click enterprise.

He insisted that any fake clicks on ads meant "we're being duped.

Sam DeSilva, a lawyer specialising in IT and outsourcing law at Manches LLP in Oxford, says of the fake clicks: "Potentially, a number of laws are being breached – the consumer protection and unfair trading regulations.

Mr. Young said he wanted to find the most efficient way to get money directly into the hands of the people who created the most interesting videos, while working to block people who inflated their ratings with fake clicks.

As they browse, this code injects fake clicks on ads into the datastream to hide what is going on.

Facebook very likely uses this or a similar method to attempt to protect advertisers from paying for fake clicks.

The fake clicks make it look like certain ads are really popular and the owner of that site gets paid for the traffic they are supposedly piping to them.

In those cases, bots are racking up the fake clicks, which obviously never convert to any sort of purchase or other action.

If each of these computers opens 50 hidden browsers every day, spending 30 seconds on each page and clicking an ad once every 200 pages, the fraudster can generate 72 million fake clicks in a single day!

One good quarter does not make a trend, but there is a glimmer of hope in the fight against click fraud (fake clicks that can nevertheless cost advertisers money).