Hacker News Reader

Comment by elliottcarlson | Hacker News Reader

And yet a site like this (the site that traffic was being directed to) has adsense on it without any issues.

I agree and stories like http://blog.hatchlings.com/post/20171171127/dont-be-evil-how... get their accounts frozen. I guess the lesson is to get into shady business.

I wonder if he'd still have adsense if someone "gifted" him 10k hits from an adult network + some run of site adult themed links?

Guessing it wouldn't take long, algorithms being what they are.

so your solution is to waste a bunch of legitimate ad spend from a legitimate advertiser by sending illegitimate traffic and clicks to a hacker's site? What if the person dropping those links in those hacked sites wasn't actually the owner of the target site and he did that so someone like you would screw over all of the innocent parties who happen to involved?

This is a problem Google needs to fix, hackers aren't going anywhere and god knows teaching them a "lesson" isn't really a good solution most of the time, black hat morals being what they are.

My tongue-in-cheek idea was to buy him the traffic, not steal it from a legit campaign - Once G thinks you're a porn destination, I doubt very much you will index.

You're right, tho no serious solution there. It's more of a poke at a broken system that automatically ban-hammers good guys with the bad based on signals that totally miss bad actors like this guy.

Clearly the 'hacker' here has invested enough time to understand the system better than legitimate sites that have "wasted" their time trying to generate value for their users.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com