“Everything is fake”: Ex-Reddit CEO confirms Internet traffic metrics are bullshit. For starters Read notes that “Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human.” Some years, “a healthy majority of it is bot.”
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[–]Vigte 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (1 child)
So, could this be a money making scheme? Hear me out - What if somehow the code intentionally or unintentionally double-bills advertisers when a phone switches towers?
IE) you have a seamless experience, but the site believes 2 different IPs are seeing the ad, thus double billing...
Maybe? I'm a bit of a gen Xer so... sorry if I'm wrong!
[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (0 children)
The old metric system is fake.
Long live the new metric system.
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