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What about AdNauseum? Same basic premise.

Click fraud sounds like an ominous term. But let's be real here. We aren't truly opting into all this tracking. I'd rather call it anonymous clicks. As for Google trying to resist it, I strongly suspect there isn't a network actively trying to give privacy back to the people.

On a related tangent, CloudFlare creating a Google Analytics tracker could help lessen Google's tracking. But this battle should've been waged about 10 years ago. It's a shame that Hydra has many formidable heads.

I think that calling ad-sharing "click-fraud" is a little ridiculous. I can understand why someone would call an extension like AdNauseam click-fraud, but this would presumably be people legitimately clicking on the ad.

I'm using the industry technical term, in the sense that the algorithms that could protect an advertiser from screwing up their metrics already exist to protect Google from screwing up the payment model.