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It’s not a good thing to have more bots at the same revenue because you aren’t just buying a companies past performance but their future performance. If advertisers thought they were buying 1M real person impressions and it turned out to be half bits, next time they pay you money they would only want to pay half as much.

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> If advertisers thought they were buying 1M real person impressions and it turned out to be half bits, next time they pay you money they would only want to pay half as much.

That’s if you assume that advertisers have no idea what the result of ad impressions are. (Which is an argument I’m sympathetic to, but isn’t flattering to the ad industry.) If they do have an idea of the results of ad impressions, it would mean that their ads are actually proportionally more effective than they thought, since their revenue brought in by ads has stayed the same but with fewer impressions.

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