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> Of course if that traffic included advertisements, you'd also lose 95% of your ad revenue.

Not so, serving an ad to a bot gains you no revenue, because ad networks charge for clicks, not impressions. If a significant percentage of your ad clicks are from bots, you're running a defective advertising platform and won't have customers for long regardless.

parent Hasu 3 years ago

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