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Was I right to do so, given that it will be a different IP, everytime he logs on? How does Google know it's the same person, if he's a different IP each time?
But even if he doesn't use the toolbar, it is a practice I would highly discourage. You never know what ideas they could come up with to detect.
I wonder if they set a cookie through javascript or use some other tracking device by comparing logs? Experts at statistics can pull up data and find amazing patterns...
Was I right to do so
It doesn't matter whether Google would catch it or not, you did what was ethically correct -- stopping dishonest behavior.
fraud in the long term harms the publisher most. think about it the advertiser has money to spend, he will always find some other avenue with better or same ROI. Google might scrap adsense and go in for just adwords (not possible , but probable if fraud is very high which hasnt happened till yet maybe bcz they r very paranoid about fraud or maybe bcz we havent done anything like that). thats leaves us the publishers in the dry looking for other sources of revenue.
having said that G must understand that most publishers realise this and also wish to avoid , help detect fraud clicks. It burns my heart each time another publisher is pulled out of the program while they scream it wasnt me. I think most publishers have the sense of not clicking on their ads and instead of punishing us , G should try and work with us. We do wish to help :(
Since I sell Adsense AND buy Adwords, I'm pretty happy they do.
