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ARCarr on Oct 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ad blocker that clicks on the ads

Because he can get banned from ad services for having fake clicks.

eli on Oct 27, 2014 [–]

Actually we don't use ad networks, we sell our own ads. But we want to be able to provide honest numbers of impressions and clicks to our advertisers and we definitely want to know which ads preform well with our readers and which don't. The goal is to have ads people actually want to see.

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