I bought my very first domains several days ago and parked them at a place where they put up pay-per-click ads, and I get paid like a few cents every time a "unique" visitor clicks through one of them. So I was clicking through proxy servers and clicking on my ads to make a couple bucks without giving it much thought. I just discovered the term "click fraud" and am shocked to think that I may have been engaging in something immoral, if not illegal! My questions are:
1) Is what I was doing "click fraud," and if so, is it really illegal?
2) Is it like, dishonest? Or is there some kind of win-win-win dynamic that I just am not thinking about? Sorry, this is all brand new to me! Is clicking your own ads bad??
3) and if they really cared about clicks through proxy servers, why don’t they just ban the proxy sites, or at least the popular ones? Something doesn’t seem to add up….
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