From: Roy Sutton <roys@...>
Date: 2005-09-18T12:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub(/Ads by Goooooogle/, "PayPal DONATE").suggest?

I'd like to second this.  As a person who uses Google advertising what 
you are advocating is stealing.  If you aren't interested in the product 
all you're doing is taking money out of my pocket or the pocket of some 
other advertiser.  I had to disable Ad Sense ads because they click 
fraud rate is so high I wasn't seeing a return on investment.  The only 
way for this to continue to be effective is for advertisers to feel 
they're getting effective returns on their ad dollars.

Roy

David Brady wrote:
> Mike Novecento wrote:
>
>> The message that should be clear to all the ruby community is: click on
>> that freaking ads!!! I started clicking everyday since yesterday,
>> everytime I visit the site. Guys, let's click the ads on ruby-lang.org
>> and we will give thousands to the cause of Ruby.
> I can't speak for the Ruby site owner, but as the owner of a handful 
> of sites that runs Google Adsense ads, PLEASE STOP.  I know you 
> already know that you can't get something for nothing.  But your 
> thinking is, Google or the advertiser that paid Google can pick up the 
> slack here.
>
> Your thinking is wrong.  Google calls these "fraudulent clicks" and 
> they're VERY good at detecting them.  The BEST thing that can happen 
> is that your IP will be declared fraudulent and all your clicks 
> (possibly along with everyone else's that uses your ISP!) will be 
> eliminated from the site owner's payout.  A worse option is that 
> Google can declare the entire ruby-lang.org site to be fraudulent!  
> They'll stop serving ads and refuse to pay out any pending legitimate 
> ad money.  This has happened already to one site of mine due to 
> overenthusiastic "help" from zealous fans.
>
> -dB
>