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In most cases, using this tool will:

1) Increase revenue for the advertising companies you don't like

2) Cost advertisers a lot of money (some of who are probably companies you like)

3) Increases revenue for publishers with a ton of ads on their page

It's not obvious to me how contributing to click fraud benefits you as the user. If anything, it benefits the ad companies by driving more revenue to them.




4) Eventually the advertisers realize their ads are having less and less of an impact, and pull back on their spending.




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