Sounds GA black hat methods to me. But I'm not quite surprised about this. Monetization is the master word. I'm wondering whether selenium would fit their need. ( I believe one have to change the UserAgent to look more real ). Google's mission at a very early stage. Do you know if google is able to detect such behaviors? Is it even possible? Maybe detecting patterns issued from a particular IP. Or using smart cookies to track down users with definite patterns.