Comments on: Blog down, blog up, and spam https://thenewneo.com/2017/12/06/blog-down-blog-up-and-spam/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2017/12/06/blog-down-blog-up-and-spam/#comment-2315771 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:26:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=73694#comment-2315771 Do the advertisers know they are paying for phantom viewers? Surely they must, in which case are ad rates weighted for a particular sites average “bot count”?

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2017/12/06/blog-down-blog-up-and-spam/#comment-2314771 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:27:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=73694#comment-2314771 I don’t know. Bots are pretty taxing as they are.

]]> By: Cornflour https://thenewneo.com/2017/12/06/blog-down-blog-up-and-spam/#comment-2314097 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:57:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=73694#comment-2314097 From MIT Technology Review:

“By some measures, bots account for 49 percent of visits to Web pages and are responsible for over 50 percent of clicks on ads. This impact is set to increase as the number of bots rises exponentially.”

If bots can be recognized, can they be taxed? (This might be a ridiculous question, but I didn’t mean it as a joke.)

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