Posts Tagged ‘click fraud’

The problem with an advertising model on the Web…Click fraud

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

In a study released earlier this year, Click Forensics says that 17.1% of all clicks on ads are fraudulent, with almost a third of them perpetrated by automated “botnets”, groups of computers taken over (via trojan horses, viruses, etc.) and controlled remotely.

At some point this problem is going to come home to roost and advertisers [...]