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So basically Google has enabled trolls/people with bad intentions to destroy someone's cash flow. This seems ridiculous! That's the one thing I hate about Google...their lack of customer service. Regardless if their service is free, they are making more than enough money to set up a call center or something.


You'd think if they could identify 'suspicious' clicks, they could just ignore them: don't hold the impressions/clicks against the ad-buyer, don't reward the ad-bearing site operator. Problem solved.

If it's an honest misunderstanding: no harm done. If it's a money-making scheme: they'll give up and go elsewhere, guaranteed.


I think all companies should encourage this. When I read this, Bell Labs comes to mind. Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation and I think all companies should take note!


> Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation

Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?

Harder to achieve than it looks.


> Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?

They also were forbidden from profiting from a large portion of the work that they did....

If that weren't the case, we wouldn't have GNU.


We wouldn't have OS X as it is today either.


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