Stupid “Click The Ads” Mentality Comes To Facebook

Every so often, I see a website that tells its users to make sure to click the Google AdSense ads and I just laugh. Actually outright telling your users to click a Google ad is one of the dumbest things you can do, as it can cause your account to be banned and you to lose any money you might have made legitimately. You see it all the time, and now it’s been spotted on Facebook.
Amit Agarwal found one Facebook application that includes AdSense ads (which might even be against Facebook’s Terms of Service), but worse, says you should come by and click the ads. Not just that you should click the ads, but that you should come by once every day and click an ad so that they can get a better server. Yeah, that’s wonderful. This blog reports they’ve already been banned by […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg