I think it's a crock of shit. Anybody agree?
Every douchebag with an iphone color wants to be the next pewdiepie and have a giant corporation pay them for buying viewbots.
All the people watching that garbage are wasting their life en mass.
Maybe a virtual currency forum isn't the best place to garner support for that sentiment....
What's really, really crazy is that companies actually pay Google (and therefore site owners) for page views. How many pages have you looked at and ignored every single ad? Thousands I'm sure. It's a complete waste of money and a largely ineffective way to advertise.
Everyone's looking for passive income...do you blame the guy who pays for the service (the company advertising), the guy providing an infrastructure for that service (Google), or the guy who rents out his website real estate for the ads?
I have an opinion, but I'd prefer to know yours.
I don't blame any of them in particular, I understand why people do it. At the same time, I think it's stupid because it's incentivizing people to produce garbage content in mass. There are some really great people on youtube but there are also some really terrible people. Google doesn't give a flying fuck if the content should be posted, just that it is and unique IPS click it.
For example, people who have channels where all they do is break new phones. Okay, I get it, but there are thousands of them being paid to waste time and resources. Another example, conspiracy theories which have no base in reality but prey on schizophrenics and the lot. I'd like to see some of these lone shooters viewing history, wouldn't you?