CODEWITHSUNDEEP
seleniumvpn
secret_tgm
secret_tgm

Reputation: 1

can you waste google adds through automation

suppose company Z pays google adds such that their adds stay on the front page of the results until it has been clicked on x amount of times, what would stop me creating a selenium webscraper that clicks over and over to waste those views?

if there is something to stop me, could I not easily overcome that by using a VPN and being a bit more random with my webscraper so it doesn't seem robotic?

is that even legal?

alternative: suppose i run a vpn on my computer, open a vm and run a vpn on my vm, click the add once. close my vm, delete it and create a new one. open the new one and download a vpn, then click on the add again from inside a second vm in a new vpn?

would that be 2 clicks?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 33

Answers (1)

Harry333Cover
Harry333Cover

Reputation: 389

Basically by connecting through a VPN you would get a new IP a forward your traffic to this IP. So the website you are connected to would see you under the new IP.

However, you would still have single IP which will register the first click to your add but won't trigger any other click since it would come from the same IP and being detected by the google anticheat system.

Upvotes: 1

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