The article talks about AdNauseam, an extension that autoclicks every ad it finds to try and poison the data well, and that the creators found out that Google would accept most of those clicks and charge advertisers / pay out websites for them.<p>What worries me is that running something like feels close to what would piss off Google the most, and be one of those things that suddenly and without explanation or recourse makes them kick you (and anyone associated with you) out of everything Google, like Gmail, YouTube, Drive, etc.
There is a link to a PDF of this article on the Ad Nauseam site:<p><a href="https://rednoise.org/AdNauseamVsGoogle.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://rednoise.org/AdNauseamVsGoogle.pdf</a>
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